Her father, Bard Lewis Darenydd Evans, immigrated to the United States from Wales.
He studied two years at Western Reserve University, and graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary.
She went to France during World War I, then came home to work as a social worker to coal miners in Colorado and Pittsburgh.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a friend from Sunday school, and wrote an introduction to Outcrop.
She received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College, in 1961,[1] Her poems appeared in The Nation,[2] The New Yorker,[3] and Poetry.