Mary Caroline Richards (1916 – September 10, 1999) was a poet, potter, and writer best-known for her book Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person.[1]. Educated at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and the University of California at Berkeley, she taught English at the Central Washington College of Education and the University of Chicago, but in 1945 became a faculty member of the notoriously experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.