A E Stallings

A. E. Stallings (Alicia Elsbeth Stallings, born July 2, 1968, in Decatur, Georgia) is an American poet, translator, and essayist known for her formalist poetry and verse translations of classical works including Lucretius's The Nature of Things (2007), Hesiod's Works and Days (2017), and The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice (2019). Her major poetry collections include Archaic Smile (1999, Richard Wilbur Award), Hapax (2006, Poets' Prize), Olives (2012, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), Like (2018, Pulitzer Prize finalist), and This Afterlife (2022); notable achievements encompass MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships (both 2011), fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and appointment as Oxford's Professor of Poetry (2023).