Virginia Houston

Virginia Houston was a poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Her poetry often used overtly erotic images. One of her poems, Class Room, was included in the first edition of Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (1989), edited by Maureen Honey, which was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to notice women poets of the Harlem Renaissance. She was the model for the character Clara in Ruth Seid's book The Changelings. She was a friend of Seid throughout her life and helped her write The Changelings by confirming the truth of the black characters in it. She also worked as a social worker.