Lona Mosk Packer

Lona Mosk Packer (October 9, 1918 – April 30, 1965) was an American literary scholar and editor. In 1964, she published a titular biography of English poet Christina Rossetti and The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters. A professor at the Lewis & Clark College and University of Utah, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965, the same year she died. Biography Packer was born on October 9, 1918, in Denver, Colorado.

She briefly worked at University of California, Santa Barbara as an English instructor from 1956 to 1957. working there as an assistant professor of English until 1958.

In 1964, Packer published her titular biography of English poet Christina Rossetti. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for an edition of the poetry of Christina Rossetti.

Packer died on April 30, 1965, in Los Angeles. Her son was classical scholar James E. Packer, who dedicated his 1971 book The Insulae of Imperial Ostia to her.