Grace Miriam Kerns (August 27, 1879^[1] – September 10, 1936) was an American soprano, called the "Nightingale of the Trenches" for her popularity during World War I. She made over a hundred recordings during the 1910s.

Kerns was born in Norfolk, Virginia,^[2] and lived in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a daughter in the large family of Andrew Jackson Kerns and Catharine Marinda Clark Kerns. Her father was a saw manufacturer.^[1] She studied voice with Emma Cecilia Thursby.^[3] She studied in Europe in the summer of 1913.^[4]

Kerns began her professional singing career as a church and oratorio soloist in New York City.^[5][6] She made over a hundred recordings during the 1910s, for Victor, Columbia, Okeh, Empire, and Edison labels.^[7][8] She recorded duets with other singers including Margaret Keyes, Reed Miller, John Barnes Wells, Nevada Van der Veer, and Henry Burr.^[7][9][10] She sometimes sang under other names, including Miriam Clark and Grace Nash.^[11]

During World War I, she went to France to entertain the troops,^[11][12] earning the nickname "Nightingale of the Trenches."^[13] After the war, she returned to church soloist work, and giving concerts.^[14][15] She also sang in radio broadcasts.^[16] In her later years she taught voice at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia.^[17][18]

Kerns, her brother, and her nephew all died in a car accident near Williamsburg, Virginia in 1936.^[18]