Lois Beebe Hayna was born in Vesper, WI in 1913. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison on a scholarship, but left a year before graduation due to the Depression. One of her teachers was S.I. Hayakawa. After college she married and lived in the South until moving to Denver, CO after a divorce. She raised her three children, supporting herself by working as a map librarian for a geology company. In the 1970s Hayna returned to writing poetry by getting up early before she went to work. She remarried, is widowed, and lives in Colorado Springs, CO. She has taught poetry and started the Hayna Writers in 1976, a group of poets that still meet. She is a recipient of many awards such as a literary Fellowship from the Colorado Council of Arts and Humanities, and the Golden Quill Award from the friends of the Pikes Peak Library. In 2009, Regis University awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree. In 2011, Hayna's poem "Brief Eden" was included in the February issue of American Life in poetry, a column for newspapers by Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate for the United States, 2004-2006.
From the description of Lois Beebe Hayna papers [manuscript] (Orange Public Library). WorldCat record id: 720407747
