Malena Mörling
Malena Mörling is a Swedish poet and Assistant Professor. She is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue which won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize in 1998 and Astoria published by Pittsburgh Press in 2006. She has translated poems by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, a selection of which appeared in the collection For the Living and the Dead, published by Ecco Press. Her poems have also appeared She was awarded The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award in 1999 and in 2004 the Lotos Club Foundation Prize. In 2007 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and for 2007-08 she was a Research Associate at the School For Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her poetry can be found in in numerous publications and anthologies including The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Washington Post Book World, Double Take/Points of Entry and Five Points, among others.
Mörling was born in Stockholm, Sweden1965. She was raised in southern Sweden. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina, Wilmington[1] and Core Faculty in The Low Residency MFA program at New England College[2].