Robin Morgan (born 1941), writer, editor, poet, and political activist, was one of the leading feminists in the United States.

Robin Morgan was born on January 29, 1941, in Lake Worth, Florida, the daughter of Faith Berkley Morgan. She grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, and at an early age wanted to be a doctor and a poet. "The male-supremacist society destroyed the first ambition," she once wrote, "but couldn't dent the second."

In the late 1950s she attended Columbia University in New York. On September 19, 1962, she married Kenneth Pitchford, a poet. They had one child, Blake Ariel Morgan-Pitchford.

During the early 1960s, while working as a literary agent and free-lance editor in New York City, Morgan began publishing poetry. A collection of her poems from the 1960s appeared in 1972 under the title Monster. Through the 1960s Morgan engaged in leftist political activities centered around opposition to the U.S...