Marguerite Wilkinson

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on November 15, 1883, she was educated at Northwestern University and went on to become known both as a poet and as an editor. She published poetry collections including In Vivid Gardens and The Passing World, and her writing earned a place in the literary magazines and anthologies of her day.

She was also an important figure behind the scenes of American poetry. Alongside her own writing, she worked in magazine editing and became especially associated with Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, where she helped encourage and shape the work of other writers during a lively period in modern poetry.

Her papers and correspondence survive in archival collections, which reflects the regard later readers and scholars have had for her literary life. She died in 1928, but her work still offers a window into the poetic culture of the early 1900s.