Katherine de Montalant Hoskins (May 25, 1909 – May 26, 1988) was an American poet, short story writer, and playwright.
In 1935, she married Albert L. Hoskins, Jr., a World War I veteran who worked as a probation officer in Boston; together they had one daughter, Camilla.
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, William Meredith sounded a somewhat prophetic note with the remark that "Katherine Hoskins' poems are so austerely excellent—and this is said without cynicism—that there is danger of their not being noticed at all."
Syntactical inversions abound; impenetrable and peculiar modifiers accompany equally odd nouns and verbs.
[2] Hoskins' honors include a 1957 Brandeis University Creative Writing Award[5] and a 1958 Guggenheim fellowship.