Molly Beresford was born in Dollar, Clarkmanshire, Scotland in 1885. She emigrated to Canada c. 1905, and attended Dalhousie University, then Columbia University. In 1924, she won second prize in the Dennis Verse competition for Dalhousie students with the poem "Our Little Life." She became head of the English department at the Provincial Normal College for Teachers in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1929. She passed away in 1960.