Elizabeth Marie Young is a poet and classicist who teaches at Wellesley College. Her first full collection of poems, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell prize from Fence Books in 2009. A chapbook, Sonnets, came out in 2008 from Omahrahu press. Scholarly work includes an article on Ovid’s Orpheus (Representations, 2008), an article on translation and mastery in Catullus’ Phaselus poem (c.4) (Arethusa, 2011), and a chapter on lyric translation in the forthcoming collection Complicating the History of Western Translation (St. Jerome). She is in the process of writing a new collection of poems and a book on Catullan translation.