Marion Angus was born in Sunderland in 1866. The daughter of a United Presbyterian Kirk minister, she grew up in Arbroath, and later lived in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Helensburgh. She began her publishing career as a short story writer and journalist, and when not writing poetry also published travel writing, family history and essays. She died in Arbroath in 1946.

Her poetry was mainly in Scots and was influenced by folk traditions and the imagery and language of Scottish ballads. She was an early member of Scottish PEN and in the 1930s, she recorded radio broadcasts on a range of writing-related topics for the BBC.

Her publications include The Lilt and Other Verses (1922), Sun and Candlelight (1927), The Singin Lass (1929), and Lost Country, and Other Verses (1937). Her Selected Poems, edited by Maurice Lindsay, were published in 1950.

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