Erika Burkart (8 February 1922 – 14 April 2010) was a Swiss writer, teacher and poet. She wrote poems and epic poems, and received international recognition. Burkart was the recipient of many awards, among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis, the Gottfried-Keller-Preis, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis. She was also awarded the Grand Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation, the only woman to have received the prize.

Erika Burkart was born on 8 February 1922 in Aarau, and spent much of her life in Aristau. She trained as a primary school teacher, and taught in a number of schools before becoming a full-time writer in 1955. Burkart wrote twenty four collections of poetry over her life. Her debut poetry collection, Der dunkle Vogel (The Dark Bird), was published in 1953. Some of Burkart's poems were set to music by Rudolf Kelterborn and Gottfried von Einem. Burkart also wrote eight prose works, which achieved international recognition. Her first novel Moräne, published in 1970, was quoted in Alice Miller's book Poisonous Pedagogy.

Erika Burkart's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

Burkart died in Muri on 14 April 2010. She was married to writer Ernst Halter.

Burkart was the recipient of many awards. Burkart was awarded the Droste Prize in 1958, the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis in 1961, the J. P. Hebel Prize in 1978, and in 1990 both the Mozart Prize and the Gottfried Keller Prize. She won the Joseph Breitbach Prize in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded the Grand Schiller Prize by the Swiss Schiller Foundation, on the foundation's 100th anniversary. At the time of her death in 2010 she was the only woman to ever have been awarded the prize, and as the prize has not been awarded since 2012, this remains the case.