McCreery was a clerk in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General in Iowa who authored one book of poems, Songs of Toil and Triumph, and one exceptionally famous poem, "There is no Death."
Adelaide Crapsey taught at Kemper Hall (1902-04), Miss Lowe's Preparatory School, Stamford, Conn. (1906-08), and Smith College (1911-12). She invented the quintain and died much too young for one with such astonishing skill as a poet.