Marguerite Burnat-Provins ((1872-06-26)June 26, 1872, Arras - (1952-11-20)November 20, 1952, Grasse) was a French and Swiss writer and painter.

Burnat-Provins was the oldest of seven children born in a middle class family.

Her father encouraged her artistic talents and she left Arras for Paris in 1891 to study at a number of schools with art-focused curricula as École des Beaux-Arts did not admit women at the time.

During this time she was prolific watercolor painter; many of her works, along with poems and original editions of her books, were destroyed or stolen during World War I.

Two of her books, Le Livre pour toi (1908) and Cantique d'été (1910), focused on the nude male body, using language that male poets had historically used to describe female nudes for centuries.