Poet and writer. Born in 1893 in Viña del Mar, Chile. Married at seventeen and becoming a mother, she moved with her family to the port city of Iquique, where she began publishing under the pseudonym Tebal. In 1915, accused by relatives of adultery, she was confined to the Convent of the Precious Blood, from which she escaped in 1916 to Buenos Aires. In 1917, Wilms Montt's first poetry collection, Inquietudes sentimentales [Anxieties of the Heart]—fifty poetic works organized according to surrealist principles—was published. Four more collections of her poems appeared during her lifetime in Buenos Aires and Madrid: Los tres cantos [The Three Canticles], Cuentos para hombres que todavía son niños [Stories for Men Who Are Still Children], En la quietud del mármol [In the Stillness of Marble], and Anuarí. She died in 1921 in Paris.