Malena Morling is a Swedish-American poet and translator. 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 works by the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran, and numerous other Swedish poets as well as the American poet Philip Levine into Swedish. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2007 and a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship in 2010. She is a research associate at the School For Advanced Research on the Human Experience in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mörling has received exceptional praise for both Ocean Avenue and Astoria by editors and poets. Mörling was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1965. She was raised in southern Sweden. She is currently professor in the Department of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington and core faculty in the low residency M.F.A. program at New England College.
Malena Morling
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Malena Morling worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…