Christopher Childers is the author of The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, out now from Penguin Classics. He has published poems, translations, and prose in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Agni, Smartish Pace, and Literary Matters. He is the recipient of an NEA Translators’ Fellowship and winner of the Briar Cliff Review Poetry Contest and the Erskine J. Poetry Contest from Smartish Pace. His poem “Miasma” will appear in the forthcoming edition of Best American Poetry.

Christopher holds a BA in Classics from UNC Chapel Hill and an MFA in Poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in Baltimore, MD and teaches Latin at the Gilman School, but will soon be moving to Los Angeles, CA, where his wife will pursue a residency in pathology.