Anne Carson (born in Toronto, Ontario) is one of the most celebrated and formally innovative poets writing in English, equally at home in poetry, essay, translation, and hybrid forms that resist easy categorization. She taught classics at McGill University and the University of Michigan, among other institutions. Her work Autobiography of Red (Knopf, 1998), a verse novel reimagining the myth of Geryon, brought her wide literary attention. Nox (New Directions, 2010), an accordion-fold elegy for her brother, was a major formal innovation. Her honors include the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also translated Sappho, Euripides, and Sophocles, and received the Lannan Literary Award.