M. Travis Lane

M. Travis Lane has said that she "always intended to be a poet" and that she decided after completing her PhD to "take myself seriously as a poet" rather than pursuing a career as a university professor. Between 1969 and 2015 she has published 15 solo books and chapbooks, and her work has appeared in more than 30 anthologies. Her 1980 book Divinations and Shorter Poems won the inaugural Pat Lowther Award for the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Her other awards include the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award for her poem "The Safety Net". In 2003 she was awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English Literature for "outstanding contribution to the arts in New Brunswick by a native or resident New Brunswicker".

Since 1967 M. Travis Lane has been an honorary research associate in the English department of the University of New Brunswick. She has taught courses in contemporary American poetry and West Indian writing, as well as English survey courses, and has been an external reader for several theses. She has also been a prolific and respected reviewer for periodicals, particularly The Fiddlehead. She belongs to the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and is a Raging Granny.

She and her husband Lauriat Lane Jr. moved to Fredericton in 1960 with their one-year-old daughter. Their second child, a son, was born in Canada. In 1973 M. Travis Lane, her husband and her two children became Canadian citizens. Lauriat Lane Jr. taught English at the University of New Brunswick until 1990 and was named an emeritus professor on his retirement. He died in 2005.

She attended Vassar College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1956. In 1957 she was awarded a Master of Arts degree by Cornell University for her thesis The Fences of Robert Frost: The Changes in his Ways of Approaching Philosophical Problems. She earned a PhD from Cornell in 1967 for her dissertation on Robert Frost's poetic style entitled Agnosticism as Technique.

Millicent Travis Lane (known as M. Travis Lane; born 23 September 1934) is an American-born Canadian poet based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Millicent Travis was born into a military family in San Antonio, Texas on 23 September 1934. Her father, United States Army Colonel William Livingston Travis, was a 1933 West Point graduate who won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II. Her mother was Elsie Ward Travis. Millicent had one sister. During her childhood the family moved often because of her father's military postings. Her parents introduced her to poetry at an early age and she began writing poems as a young child.