Born in St. Louis on August 8, 1884.

She graduated from Hosmer Hall in 1903.

Her first published poem appeared in the St. Louis weekly «Reedy's Mirror» in May 1907.

In 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for «Love Songs», 1917.

Her marriage ended in divorce in 1929, and she lived thereafter the life of a semi-invalid.