Mary Sinton Leitch

Mary Sinton Leitch (7 September 1876 – 20 August 1954) was an American writer, poet, and editor, who helped to found the Poetry Society of Virginia. She attended Smith College and Columbia University, and studied in France and Germany.

She married John David Leitch in 1907, and they settled in Lynnhaven, Virginia. Their home became, according to The Poetry Review "a centre for much of the poetry life of the Virginia tidewater." They had a daughter and a son: Charlton Leitch Harrell and John Leitch. She was a longtime friend and correspondent of illustrator and author J. J. Lankes.

Leitch died in August 1954 and is buried in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Writing, however, became her principal focus. Harper's Magazine, Poet Lore, The Personalist, and many others. In The Music Makers: an Anthology of Recent American Poetry (1945) Stanton Coblentz described Leitch's work as "predominantly of a lyrical nature, sometimes touched with graceful whimsies."

Leitch was a founder of the Poetry Society of Virginia, becoming its president in 1933, and co-president 1944-1945.