Marie Pauline Vognild was born in Vardø, Finnmark, Norway in January 1870 to Johan Vognild, a watchmaker, and Eva Sande Vognild. In early childhood her parents moved to Archangel, Russia, with their business. Educated by her governess, Marie, she spoke Russian, German, French, and English fluently. When her parents died she and her sister lived in Oppdal, Norway, with relatives and then moved to Chicago, Illinois, to live with their uncle. She attended the S.T. Taylor School of dress design and opened a dressmaking establishment in Evanston, Illinois. She gave up the business in 1900 and married Gunnar Lund in Seattle, Washington, who became the editor of Seattle’s weekly Norwegian language paper, Washington Posten. She organized and became involved in service organizations, founding and presiding over Barnevene, which became the Norwegian Hospital Association, as well as the Daughters of Norway Valkyrien Lodge. She was also an active church member at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Seattle, Washington, presided over the Pacific Coast Grand Lodge, the Federated Church Women, and the Belmont Unit of the Music and Art Foundation, and contributed to many other local Norwegian culture and heritage events, including directing 17th of May Pageants and hosting explorer Roald Amundsen's Fram crew. She received the highest award of the American Red Cross for her World War I work, during which she organized a speaker's bureau, and was decorated by King Haakon of Norway for organizing a 1925 celebration in Seattle for the first Norwegians in America. When Gunnar died in 1940, she also became acting publisher of the Washington Posten, and earlier also contributed a series of articles to the newspaper that were reprinted as the book Dette er Norge (This is Norway). She and her husband had three children and she was active until her health failed. She died in 1943.

According to her Washington State death record, Marie was the daughter of Johannes Vognild. She was the wife of Gunnar Lund.