Christopher Childers is a poet and translator living in Baltimore, MD. He has published poems, essays and translations in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Matters, and Smartish Pace, among others. He is the recipient of several awards, including an NEA Translators’ Fellowship and the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, and has a poem forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2023. His Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse will be published by Penguin UK on March 28 of this year. He has a BA in Classics from UNC Chapel Hill, an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, and teaches Latin at the Gilman School.