Rosanna Warren, an award-winning poet, essayist, translator, and literary critic, is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. She graduated from Yale University and received her master's from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

She has published several translations, including a verse translation of Euripides' SUPPLIANT WOMEN, with Stephen Scully (Oxford University Press, 1995), and edited William Arrowsmith's translations of Montale's CUTTLEFISH BONES (W.W. Norton 1993) and SATURA (W. W. Norton 1998).

Her book STAINED GLASS (W.W. Norton 1993) was the Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets in 1993. FABLES OF THE SELF: STUDIES IN LYRIC POETRY, a book of literary criticism, appeared from W. W. Norton in 2008.

She is a recipient of the Witter Bynner Prize and the Award of Merit in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies, a Nation/"Discovery" award, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, the Ingram Merrill grant, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.