Blanche Mary Channing (February 26, 1860 – August 9, 1902) was a poet and writer of juvenile fiction.

[1] She was the daughter of Julia Maria (née Allen) and William Henry Channing, a Unitarian clergyman in England and America.

[8][2][3] Her poems were popular during the Spanish–American War era[4] and were published in Time magazine and newspapers such as The Boston Journal.

[3][11][12] However, her children's books Zodiac Stories (1899), Winifred West (1901), and Lullaby Castle and Other Poems (1902) were her best-known works.

[4] She died on August 9, 1902, in the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from an illness after being chilled during a boating outing in Nahant a few weeks prior.