Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and has taught at McGill University, University of Michigan, and Princeton. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow and 2000 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award. Carson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. Her published works blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction.