Career
She taught philosophy, psychology, and the history of education for most of her career at University of Arizona. Cummings edited two poetry anthologies and her own poetry was published in popular periodicals such as Smart Secretariat, Harper"s, Commonwealth, Lippincott"s, and The Forum. The two continued their friendship through correspondence.
She died in 1926.
She was also known as Marion Stanley and later as Marion Slonimsky.