Her name is Sappho and she was a poet in the 7th century BCE. She wrote lyric poetry in her native tongue, the Aeolian Greek dialect of the island where she came from and lived: Lesbos.Here is a list of links and books dealig with Sappho in Greek literature, history, her little place out here on AW:

The oikos of Sappho Socrates: see this oikos for Sappho, her poetry, links and more!

The Divine Sappho: a website completely on Sappho, with her poems and lots of information.

Sappho at Temple University.

There's still much discussion between the classical world and the lesbian world about Sappho's role as a lesbian and about the dawn of lesbian culture. Even classicists and ancient historians are not sure about this. It all depends on how the gap in a certain fragment of a certain poem by Sappho, dedicated to acertain girl, should be filled in and interpreted. Read about Sappho and lesbianism here.

Mythography: The Greek poet Sappho.

Texts and books:

The Poems of Sappho

M. Barnard, Sappho: A New Translation, 2000.

S. Lombardo, Sappho, Poems and Fragments, 2002.

A. Carson, If not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, 2003.