Elizabeth Marie Young is a Boston-based poet and educator. Her books include the poetry collection Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, which won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, and Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome. She has been a National Poetry Series Finalist and an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Squire Foundation. Her poems have appeared in journals including Diagram, Jubilat, Green Mountains Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and Sugar House Review.