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Montague was born at Oakhurst estate in White Sulphur Springs. Many of her stories were set in the mountains, focusing on local people and culture.
Her early books, such as The Poet, Miss Kate, and I (1905) and The Sowing of Alderson Cree (1907), featured mountain life and feuds. Inspired by her brother’s work at the state School for the Deaf and Blind in Romney, she wrote Closed Doors (1915). Montague also faced her own vision problems throughout life.
She created the character Tony Beaver, a tall-tale logger similar to Paul Bunyan, in stories like Up Eel River (1928), capturing the spirit of West Virginia’s logging camps. In 1919, she won the O. Henry Award for her short story "England to America," a powerful tale about World War I that even caught President Woodrow Wilson’s attention.
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