Elaine M. Catley

Elaine Maud Catley (1889–1984) was a Canadian poet. She was born November 14, 1889, in Bath, Somerset, England, to Frederick Charles and Annie Matilda Clark. She attended private school in Guildford and married Sydney Catley in 1915. Her first poem appeared in the Calgary Herald. She released six volumes of poetry. Included among them was Ecstasy and Other Poems, one of a series of Ryerson poetry chap-books. In a 1967 interview with the Calgary Herald, Catley explained she was able to continue writing while raising a family by finding spare moments: "I wrote whenever I could. I have written while I was in a streetcar, and I've written at two o'clock in the morning." She spent her later years at George Boyack Nursing Home in Calgary. She died July 29, 1984.

Publications Greater love and other poems (1916) Star dust, and other poems (1926) Ecstasy and other poems (1927) Canada calling (1938) Light and other poems (1960) At the end of the road (1974)