Elizabeth Marie Young is a Boston-based poet and educator who came of age as a poet in New York City and San Francisco.

After earning her BA in Classics from Columbia University and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UC-Berkeley, she spent a decade as a professor of comparative literature, publishing widely on gender, sexuality, transgression, and liberation in the poetry of ancient Rome.

Her books include the poetry collections An Inventory of Almost Everything (Subpress) and Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, which won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, as well as Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome (U Chicago Press), a book about the ancient Roman understanding of lyric translation and literary creativity. Her poems have recently appeared in such journals as Bennington Review, Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and TriQuarterly.