Maria Gowen Brooks

|birth_place = Medford, Massachusetts, United States |death_date = |resting_place = Limonar Church Cemetery, Matanzas |occupation = Poet |notable_works = ''Zophiël, or The Bride of Seven'' }}

Maria Gowen (or Gowan) Brooks (pen name, A Lover of Fine Arts and María Del Occidente; 1794 – November 11, 1845) was an American poet. She impressed Edgar Allan Poe and the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who promoted her best-known poem ''Zophiël''. Provided by Wikipedia