Babette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.

She matriculated from the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College, graduating in 1917 with a B.A.

She published poems in magazines such as the North American Review and the New Republic while she was still a student at Barnard.

[citation needed] During the 1940s, 1950s and into the 1960s, Deutsch was teaching at Columbia University, where her students included poet/publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

"[2] On April 28, 1921, Deutsch married Avrahm Yarmolinsky, chief of the Slavonic Division of The New York Public Library (1918–1955), also a writer and translator.