Francesca Rhydderch (born 10 February 1969 in Aberystwyth, Wales) is a Welsh novelist and academic.
In 2013, her debut novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2014 for Fiction.
Her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines and broadcast on Radio 4 and Radio Wales.