Orelia Key Bell (April 8, 1864 – June 2, 1959) was an American poet and author whose work includes "Millennium Hymn" (1893) and "Poems" (1895).

[2] Her warmest recognition from the press came from Richard Watson Gilder of The Century Magazine, Page M. Baker of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, Miriam Leslie, Henry W. Grady, and Thaddeus E. Horton, and her own home paper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Sue Harper Mims was an influential teacher and lecturer in the early Christian Science movement in the South and founder of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Atlanta.

To her Bell owed the inspiration of her most enduring work, the International Series of Christian Science Hymns.

They moved to Pasadena prior to World War I and later lived at 2533 Greenbriar Lane, Costa Mesa, California.