Millay, Edna St. Vincent Syllabification: (Mil·lay, Edna St. Vincent)Pronunciation: /məˈlā/Definition of Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892–1950), US poet and writer; pen name Nancy Boyd. Much of her poetry is collected in Renascence and Other Poems (1917), Collected Sonnets (1941), and Collected Lyrics (1943).