A.E. Stallings is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Oxford University in classical studies. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Poetry, Sparrow, The Formalist, Atlanta Review, Pushcart Prize XXII, and The Best American Poetry (1994). She has also received the 1997 Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry magazine and the 1999 James Dickey Prize from Five Points. A native of Georgia, she currently lives in Athens, Greece.