Ellen Sturgis Hooper (February 17, 1812 – November 3, 1848) was an American poet.

A member of the Transcendental Club, she was widely regarded as one of the most gifted poets among the New England Transcendentalists.

[1] Her mother was an intelligent and independent woman who spent much time away from her husband, inspiring in her daughter the idea to seek self-fulfillment.

[2] In 1837, she married physician Robert William Hooper, though her friends said they were not a good match because he was intellectually inferior.

Hooper's poetry was regularly commissioned by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published in The Dial.