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A.E. Stallings

Artist Associate
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A photo of A.E. Stallings standing in front of the ruins of an ancient theatre.

A.E. Stallings is a Classicist, poet and translator and the recipient of multiple awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Runciman Award 2023. Alicia’s books include Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022), which is a selection from all her previous collections. 

She gave a reading of her work for the APGRD in November 2021 and has worked closely with the APGRD during the four years of her tenure as the Oxford Professor of Poetry (from October 2023). She has published three volumes of verse translation, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics), Hesiod's Works and Days (Penguin Classics), and most recently the pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (Paul Dry Books). She also has a book forthcoming exploring how poets have framed the debate over the marbles of the Acropolis, Frieze Frame, from Paul Dry Books.