A. E. Stallings

A. E. Stallings
Born (1968-07-02) July 2, 1968 (age 56)
Decatur, Georgia, U.S.
OccupationPoet
EducationUniversity of Georgia (AB)
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MSt)
Literary movementNew Formalism

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968)[1] 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 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]

  1. ^ Stallings, A. E. (10 March 2006). Hapax. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 9780810151710. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ^ "A. E. Stallings". www.gf.org. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. ^ Lee, Felicia R. (20 September 2011). "MacArthur Foundation Announces Winners of 'Genius' Awards". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  5. ^ John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  6. ^ "List of Active Members of American Academy of Arts & Sciences" (PDF).
  7. ^ "A E Stallings nominated for Professorship of Poetry". Institute of Classical Studies. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  8. ^ "Tweet by the University of Oxford's Faculty of English".