I am a Classics professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and enjoy writing on a range of subjects, from the classical to the personal to the political. My current interests lie mainly in literary translation of Greco-Roman literature.

My translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses into iambic pentameter (Penguin Classics, 2022) received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets and was included in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022. I have also published a verse translation of Horace’s Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020), as well as a monograph entitled Horace between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of Epistles (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015).

My forthcoming edited volume, Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleoptra, compiles ancient tales of women who wielded official political power, including historical, legendary, and mythical women. This book brings together selections from existing translations, such as Fagles’ Aeneid, and freshly translated texts, from authors such as Aristophanes, Statius, Ovid, Strabo, and more. It will be published by Penguin Classics in September 2024.

I studied Classics and English as an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Virginia.