Ocean Avenue

MALENA MORLING was born in Stockholm in 1965, and grew up in southern Sweden. She has graduate degrees from New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her translations of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer appeared in his book, For the Living and the Dead, published in 1995 by Ecco Press. She is also the author of Astoria (Pitt Poetry Series). Her poems have been published in Ploughshares, Boulevard, Third Coast, Marlboro Review, New England Review, Mudfish, and Countermeasures. In 2007 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and in 2007-08 she was a Research Associate at the School For Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Core Faculty in The Low Residency MFA program at New England College.