Alicia Elsbeth Stallings

Poet – Athens, Greece. Her poetry embraces received forms; she has been associated with the New Formalism, although her approach is flexible and freely uses metrical substitution. Debut poetry collection, Archaic Smile, received the Richard Wilbur Award, and was a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Her second collection, Hapax (2006), was awarded the 2008 Poets' Prize. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994 and 2000. Awarded a Pushcart Prize, The Eunice Tietjens Prize, the 2004 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, the James Dickey prize, the 2008 Benjamin H. Danks prize, the 2010 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, and the John Frederick Nims Translation Prize. She is a frequent contributor of poems and essays to Poetry Magazine. She has taught an intensive summer poetry seminar in Greece since 2001. Guggenheim Fellow (2011), United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow (2011), MacArthur Fellow (2011).