Mary Josephine Benson (born Trotter; March 20, 1887 – August 31, 1965) was a Canadian poet and journalist.

[1][2] She worked in journalism and advertising in Toronto in the 1910s, and returned to Port Hope following her marriage in 1915.

[3] A report on a reading she gave in 1931 described her voice as "charmingly musical".

[4] A 1922 review described her only published collection My Pocket Beryl as "real, personal and authentic poetry, of the present era".

[5] Among the works collected in My Pocket Beryl is a prose poem about Christmas.