Elizabeth Marie Young

Elizabeth Marie Young is a Boston-based poet, translator and educator. She spent a decade as a professor of ancient Greek and Roman languages and literature and has published widely on the poetry and culture of ancient Rome. Her books include the poetry collection Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, which won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, and Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome, a book about the ancient Roman understanding of lyric translation and literary creativity.