Miriam Waddington (née Dworkin; 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.
She was part of a Montreal literary circle that included F. R. Scott, Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.
She died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 3 March 2004 after suffering a stroke in late February.
After her death, much of her own works and personal library were donated by her sons to the archives of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, and served as writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa.