Under her birth name, Olga Katzin published a collection of poems—in 1927 in Britain and 1928 in the United States—satirizing major English poets, titled Peeps at Parnassus and illustrated by Arthur Watts.
[1] In a review in Poetry Magazine, Alexander Laing declared that it illustrated "that satire and wit" of such a precise British versifier "are on a distinct and higher plane" from typical American comic and parodic verse.
[3][4][5] The "Acknowledgments" in Quiver's Choice note that, in addition to the Sagittarius poems, it also contains verses published under the names "Fiddlestick" and "Roger Service."
She was more widely read and discussed in the postwar period, when, as David Kynaston observes, she spoke for a certain British attitude bitterly resigned to Britain's subservience to American interests.
[10] Born into a Jewish family in London, Olga Katzin married Hugh Miller, a well-known stage actor, in 1921; they had three children.