Sarah Ruden Reading

Sarah Ruden is a poet, translator, essayist and Quaker convert who has taught Latin, English, and writing at Harvard, Yale and Cape Town Universities and tutored in a non-profit educational project in South Africa. She earned the PhD in Classical Philology at Harvard University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a scholar in residence at Yale Divinity School. She is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University. Her translations from Greek and Latin classics include Petronius, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the Homeric Hymns, Virgil’s Aeneid, Apuleius’s Golden Ass and Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Her translation of Augustine’s Confessions, for which she received the 2016 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, is imminent and she is currently working on a new translation of the Gospels. A collection of her poetry, Other Places (1995) won the South African Central News Agency Literary Award, and her poems appear in The National Review and religious periodicals.