Kathryn Irene Glascock

Kathryn Irene Glascock (she/her) was an American poet from Indiana and the author of Poems (Country Life Press, 1923). Glascock graduated Mount Holyoke College in 1922, where she was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Mount Holyoke News, and the winner of the 1922 Alumnae Poetry Prize for her poem “Adolescence.” After college, she worked at publishing companies in New York. She died of pneumonia in 1923.

The Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest, the oldest continuously running poetry contest for undergraduate students in the United States, is named after her.