A. E. Stallings, 2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge

A. E. (Alicia) Stallings, 2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge

AROHO is proud to announce  2015 To the Lighthouse Finalist Judge, poet and translator A. E. Stallings.

A. E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published three books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax (2000); and Olives (2012). Her new verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, is published by Penguin Classics. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She lives with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their small argonaut, Jason.

(Photo and bio courtesy of the PoetryFoundation.org)

Click here to apply to the 2015 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize.