Sara Teasdale was a poet from St. Louis, Missouri. She was the first recipient of the Columbia Poetry Prize in 1918, later renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
A few of Teasdale’s many works include Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems (1907), Rivers to the Sea (1915), Love Song (1917 – the collection awarded the Columbia Poetry Prize – Flame and Shadow (1920), and Stars To-Night (1930).
Information from the Poetry Foundation.