Catherine TheisCatherine Theis is the author of the poetry collection 'The Fraud of Good Sleep' (Salt, 2011) and the play 'MEDEA' (Plays Inverse, 2017). She is the translator of Slashing Sounds (University of Chicago Press, 2024), the first collection of the Italia poet Jolanda Insana to be published in English. Theis' latest collection of poems, 'By a Roman', will be published by Antiphony Press in October 2025. Her work has also been published in 'Classics in Modernist Translation' (Bloomsbury, 2019), a volume that addresses modernist engagements with the literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. Her contribution, "Braving the elements," explores the similarities between poets H.D. and Robinson Jeffers and their interest in the choral odes of Euripides' The Bacchae. Theis teaches at the University of Southern California. Read More Read Less