Ida M. Evans (born about 1886 – died after 1944) was an American short story writer most successful in the 1910s and 1920s.

[2][3] Evans worked in "wholesale millinery houses" in Chicago and Omaha when she began writing.

[2] She wrote short stories for national publications including American Magazine,[6] Everybody's,[7] McClure's,[8] Good Housekeeping,[9] Red Book,[10] Hearst's International,[11] Cosmopolitan,[12] The Saturday Evening Post,[13] and The Green Book Magazine.

[14] Her story "On the Banks of Wabash Avenue" (1918, Good Housekeeping) was illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg.

[15] Several of Evans's stories were adapted for the screen as silent films: A Question of Hats and Gowns (1914, from "Town Pumps and Gold Leaf"),[16] Virginia (1916, short), It Makes a Difference (1917, short), Limousine Life (1918),[17] The Way of a Man with a Maid (1918),[18][19] and The Path She Chose (1920, based on the same story as Virginia).