Marie Syrkin (March 23, 1899 – February 2, 1989) was an American writer, translator, educator, and Zionist activist.

[3] In 1918 she began studies at Cornell University, completing a bachelor's degree and going on to a master's, in English literature.

In 1925 she moved to New York City with her infant son David,[4] and became an English teacher at the Textile High School in Manhattan, a job she held for over two decades.

[3][4] In the summer of 1987 Syrkin visited Naropa Institute in Boulder, to take part in a week long conference on the Objectist Movement in American poetry of which her husband was an important member, Syrkin then in her late 80's was a lively participant, often disagreeing with Allen Ginsberg on the subject of her husband's poetry.

[1][2] After the war, in 1947, she interviewed Jewish Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps in Germany, on behalf of B'nai B'rith's Hillel program, to recruit candidates for scholarships to American universities.