A. E. Stallings
American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968) is an American poet, translator, and essayist.
Stallings has published five books of original verse: Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022). She has published verse translations of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things) and Hesiod's Works and Days, both with Penguin Classics, and a translation of Batrachomyomachia (The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice).
She has been awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Stallings is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. On June 16, 2023, she was named the University of Oxford's 47th Professor of Poetry.
Background
Stallings was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia (A.B., 1990) and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MSt in Latin Literature, 1991). She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. In 1999, Stallings moved to Athens, Greece. She is the Poetry Program Director of the Athens Centre and teaches regularly at the Sewanee Summer Writers' Workshop and the West Chester University Poetry Conference.
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