Anne Marriott (November 5, 1913 – October 10, 1997)[1] was a Canadian writer who won the Governor General's Award for her book Calling Adventurers!

In fact she was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia (the daughter of Catherine Heley and Edward Guy Marriott), and lived most of her life in that province.

As a girl she spent several summers with relatives on a farm in Saskatchewan, which formed the basis of experience for many of her earlier poems.

She served on the editorial board of Contemporary Verse,[2] which she founded with Dorothy Livesay, Floris McLaren, Doris Ferne and Alan Crawley in 1941.

[4] After marrying Gerald McLellan in 1947, Marriott returned with him to British Columbia, where they adopted and raised three children.

In its colloquial rhythms and its concrete language, the poem expressed for a generation of readers the inarticulate suffering of the prairie farmer who saw his land and his hopes blowing away in a cloud of dust.