A. E. Stallings

A. E. Stallings has authored four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), and most recently, Like (2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also published three verse translations, Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things (2007), Hesiod’s Works and Days (2017), and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (2019). A volume of selected poems, This Afterlife (2022), was published by FSG in the US and Carcanet in the U.K. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics, and has been a faculty member at conferences such as the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference and Breadloaf. In October 2023, Stallings became the second woman to serve as Oxford Professor of Poetry since the position was established in 1708. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist, John Psaropoulos. They have two children, Jason and Atalanta.