Mary Barnard (1909-2001) was a prominent American poet and translator. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's suggestion in the 1930s. She received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress.

Melissa Mueller is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading.