Bio:M. F. Rupert

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From "The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers", by Mike Ashley:
M.F. Rupert, though, is a real mystery. All that we know about her comes from a small sketch that accompanied the original publication of the story in the Spring 1930 issue of Science Wonder Quarterly, and a letter of comment that was published in the July 1930 Wonder Stories. The first shows a woman of perhaps mid-30s or early 40s, and the second, which still only uses her initials preceded by "Miss.", reveals that she lived in Chicago. But a search of census and other records for the time reveals no individual that fits those criteria. It has been suggested her first name was "Margaret" and, if so, she may be the Margaret Rupert who became a doctor and was practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s.
Whoever she was, this is her only known story and it has never been reprinted outside of the old pulp magazines until now.

From: "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965", by Eric Leif Davin:
Let us begin with M. F. Rupert, as she published only a single story and can be quickly dispensed with. M. (Margaret) F. Rupert's only appearance was an impressive account of a feminist (she uses that very word!) utopia, "Via the Hewitt Ray," in the spring, 1930, Science Wonder Quarterly. If the subject matter did not clue in readers, they could scarcely miss the Frank Paul drawing of her accompanying the author's biographical profile published along with the story. Readers thus had her photograph, her profile, and a story about a feminist utopia before them. In her case, there can be no doubt that initials were not meant to conceal her sexual identity.