Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM SOM (26 August 1922 – 26 December 2012[1]) was a Canadian poet, author, and academic.

The family was of limited means, and although she was a physically frail child with a sporadic early education, Brewster was a keen reader of any material that presented itself, including literary classics and the Eatons catalogue.

[3] Her first poem, submitted by her father and accepted by the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, was published when she was twelve years old.

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946, a Master of Arts from Harvard's Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1947, then began her PhD at Indiana University, before electing to travel to England on a Beaverbrook overseas scholarship to study at King's College, London from 1949 to 1950.

A founding member in 1945 of the Canadian literary journal The Fiddlehead,[4] Brewster went on to publish over twenty collections of her poetry, five books of fiction, and two memoirs.