Mary Sinton Leitch

She worked as a women's prison inspector in New York City, before becoming a contributing editor for various magazines and newspapers.^[1] She was also an assistant editor of The Historians’ History of the World.^[6] She remained active as an editor, including compiling the anthology Lyric Virginia Today, a collection of poetry by living Virginians.^[1][11][12] Writing, however, became her principal focus.^[1]

Between 1922 and 1952, Leitch published seven collections of poetry and short fiction.^[1] She contributed to the Virginia Quarterly Review,^[13] Harper's Magazine, Poet Lore, The Personalist, and many others.^[14][15] In The Music Makers: an Anthology of Recent American Poetry (1945) Stanton Coblentz described Leitch's work as "predominantly of a lyrical nature, sometimes touched with graceful whimsies."^[11] She was called "a gifted lyricist".^[16]

Leitch was a founder of the Poetry Society of Virginia, becoming its president in 1933, and co-president 1944-1945.^[1]

• The Wagon and the Star (1922)
• The Unrisen Morrow (1926)
• The Black Moon (1929)
• Spider Architect (1937)
• From Invisible Mountains (1943)
• Himself and I (1950)
• Nightingales on the Moon (1952)