Anne Virginia Culbertson (November 16, 1857 – December 7, 1918) was an American writer, known chiefly as the author of dialect poems, and as a public reader of her own productions.

James Culbertson, came from Pennsylvania to Zanesville in the early part of the nineteenth century and for 30 years was recognized as an eminent and scholarly divine in this section.

On his retirement, he became a noted specialist in diseases of the eye and at one time occupied the chair of ophthalmology in Columbus Medical College.

[3] She spent a summer in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina in order to study the folklore of the Native Americans in that specific locale.

[4] Culbertson was the author of Lays of a Wandering Minstrel (1896), At the Big House (1904), and Banjo Talks (Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobbs, Merrill Co., 1905),[4] the latter being a popular book of dialect verse.

[3][2] She numbered among her friends such great writers as Joel Chandler Harris, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and James Whitcomb Riley.