Francis Frost is an American poet, novelist, and children's writer. She was the mother of poet Paul Blackburn.
Frost was born in St. Albans, Vermont. She attended Middlebury College from 1923 to 1926 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1931. At Middlebury, she joined Delta Delta Delta.
She married William Gordon Blackburn of St. Albans on April 4, 1926, and married Samuel Gaillard Stoney of Charleston, South Carolina, on September 18, 1933. Her son was Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet).
Frost's work appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, Harper's, and Saturday Review.
Her papers are held at the University of California, San Diego, and Yale University.
