George Elliston was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
Elliston worked as a reporter for the Cincinnati Times-Star and later as the Society Editor for that newspaper.
[2] She married Augustus Coleman in 1907 and lived briefly with him in St. Louis.
She and Coleman separated, and Elliston lived simply and alone in Cincinnati for the remainder of her life.
[2] Composer Margaret McClure Stitt set many of Elliston's poems to music.