Short answers, pulled from the story.
Publius Ovidius Naso was born on the 20th of March 43 BC in the Apennine valley town of Sulmo, now modern-day Sulmona, Italy. He was the son of an important equestrian family, the gens Ovidia, and was destined by his father to study rhetoric and practice law.
Ovid was banished to Tomis, the capital of the newly organized province of Moesia on the Black Sea, by the exclusive intervention of Emperor Augustus in AD 8. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, meaning a poem and a mistake, but he never disclosed the specifics of the crime, leaving scholars to speculate for centuries.
Ovid wrote several major works including the Heroides, the Amores, the Ars Amatoria, the Remedia Amoris, the Tristia, the Epistulae ex Ponto, and the Metamorphoses. The Metamorphoses is a continuous mythological narrative in 15 books written in dactylic hexameters that comprehensively catalogs the transformations in Greek and Roman mythology from the emergence of the cosmos to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar.
Ovid was banished to Tomis, the capital of the newly organized province of Moesia on the Black Sea, which is now Constanța in Romania. He wrote two poetry collections, the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto, in exile, describing the harsh climate and geography of Tomis and his loneliness.
Ovid died at Tomis in AD 17 or 18, but his influence has never died. His works have been interpreted in various ways over the centuries, from the moralizing of the Middle Ages to the sexual explicitness of the Renaissance and the feminist reinterpretations of the 21st century.