A. E. Stallings
American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968)[1] is an American poet, translator, and essayist.
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Born | (1968-07-02) July 2, 1968 (age 55) Decatur, Georgia, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Education | University of Georgia (AB) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MSt) |
Literary movement | New Formalism |
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 The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice.
She has been awarded the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship,[2] a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[3] and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[4] and the National Book Critics Circle Award.[5] Stallings is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[6] On June 16, 2023, she was named the University of Oxford's 47th Professor of Poetry.[7][8]