A. E. Stallings is an American poet, translator, and essayist who lives in Athens, Greece. She has published five collections of poetry: Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and a selected poems, This Afterlife (2022). Her verse translations include Lucretius's The Nature of Things and Hesiod's Works and Days, both with Penguin Classics, and a translation of the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (Paul Dry Books, 2019). In 2023, she was named the University of Oxford's 47th Professor of Poetry. She has been awarded 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 married to the journalist John Psaropoulos, and has two children.
