Alyse Gregory became acquainted with many writers and editors when, in 1918, she opened a teashop in Greenwich Village, the “bohemian” center of the city. The shop promptly became a gathering place for William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benét, and Scofield Thayer. Through these friends she met Elinor Wylie and Laura Benét, as well as Marianne Moore, who was to become her close friend. Another member of the shop’s literary clientele was British writer Llewelyn Powys, the man Gregory would eventually marry. In 1924, her friend Scofield Thayer, owner and editor of The Dial, invited her to join the journal’s editorial staff. Gregory accepted the position of managing editor and took on a major role in the periodical’s publication. During her tenure, the magazine published work by artists and writers who are counted among the most important of the century, including Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jean Toomer, Marianne Moore and Sherwood Anderson. Her frequent book reviews in The Dial were considered thoughtful and well written; “Your letter enclosing the reviews of Mrs. Wharton and of Van Wyck Brooks came today,” Marianne Moore wrote to Gregory in 1925, “and as ever, your gifts—your own velvet footed thieving of phrases—leave me dumb, exanimated with admiration of your metaphors and method.”