Background
She was born as Helen Hoyt in Norwalk, Connecticut on January 22, 1887. Her father was Gould Jennings Holt (not Henry M. Hoyt, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1893.
She was born as Helen Hoyt in Norwalk, Connecticut on January 22, 1887. Her father was Gould Jennings Holt (not Henry M. Hoyt, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1893.
Helen Hoyt was educated at Barnard College.
Her niece was the 1920s poet Elinor Wylie, She also edited the September 1916 edition of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, the woman"s number. Other magazines to publish her work include The Egoist and The Masses. Aside from her own collections, her work was also published in notable anthologies of her times, including The New Poetry: An Anthology (1917), The Second Book of Modern Verse (1920), Silver Pennies: Modern Poems for Boys and Girls (1925), May Days (1926), and The Best Poems of 1931.
Her poems include Ellis Park, Memory, Lamp Posts and Rain At Night.
In 1932, she wrote the foreword to California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries. She was a contemporary of Marianne Moore and Mina Loy, among others
She was known to entertain correspondence with Idella Purnell Stone and Clark Ashton Smith. "At present most of what we know, or think we know, of women has been found out by men, we have yet to hear what woman will tell of herself, and where can she tell more intimately than in poetry?" Others: A Magazine of the New Verse in 1916.