Eudora Stone Bumstead (August 26, 1860 – 1892) was an American poet and hymnwriter. She is remembered as "the children's poet". Along with several other young writers, including: C. A. Stephens, William S. Walsh, Robert M. Walsh, Helen Gray Cone, Eleanor C. Donnelly, Mary Sheldon Barnes, , F. ("Fern") Hamilton, and ("Clarence Fairfield"), Bumstead got her start as a writer at Our Young Folks. She began writing rhymes in childhood, and when ten years old was paid US$2 for a poem entitled, "Signs of Spring", which was published in Our Young Folks, then edited by John Townsend Trowbridge.