Edwina Stanton Babcock (1875–1954) was an American short-story writer and poet active in the early-to-mid twentieth century, publishing widely in the leading literary magazines of her day, including Harper's, Scribner's, The Bookman, and The Century Magazine. She was a recipient of the O. Henry Memorial Award for short fiction, most notably for her story Blackberry Wilderness, which placed among the prize-winning stories in the O. Henry anthology series in the early 1920s. Her work is generally characterized by regional and rural American settings, close attention to place and dialect, and psychologically attuned character studies — traits typical of the local color and early modernist short-story traditions she wrote alongside. In addition to short stories she wrote poetry, and her fiction was collected and anthologized in various short story annuals of the period. She is not widely remembered today outside specialist anthologies of American short fiction, but remains a notable figure among the O. Henry Award honorees of the 1920s.
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