Helena Dettmer is a professor emerita of Classics. She was a faculty member at The University of Iowa from 1976 to 2021. She received a B.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her publications include three books, Horace: A Study in Structure, Love by the Numbers: Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Catullus, and Issues of Unity in Ovid’s Tristia. In addition, she and Marcia Lindgren have co-authored A Workbook to Ayers' ENGLISH WORDS FROM LATIN AND GREEK ELEMENTS. She has completed a workbook and teacher's manual on AP Catullus with Lea Ann Osborne. Her areas of interest are Latin poetry and poetry books.