Leacy Naylor Green-Leach (1862âÂÂ1937) was a poet and editor.
Green-Leach was born in 1862 in Culpeper County, Virginia.àHer parents were James Williams Green and Ann Sanford McDonald.àThrough her fatherâÂÂs side Green-Leach was descended from George Mason, one of the authors of the Bill of Rights.àGreen attended private schools in Virginia until enrolling in Hellmuth Ladies' College in London, Ontario.àGreen-Leach graduated with honors at age 16.
In 1888 Green-Leach married James Madison Leach Jr.àThe couple had two children, Marcia Lewis Leach and James Green Leach.àGreen-Leach was the founder and editor of The Circle, a literary magazine based in Baltimore that operated from 1923 to 1938.à1923 was also the year that Green-Leach founded the American Poetry Circle, a Baltimore literary society.àIn 1925, Green-Leach joined Gertrude P. West and Edwin Markham in founding Poetic Thrills, a poetry magazine.àGreen-LeachâÂÂs poetry was published in books such as The Independent Poetry Anthology and One Man and a Dream.àGreen-Leach died on March 12, 1937.