Malena Mörling is the author of two collections of poems, Ocean Avenue and Astoria. One of Tomas Tranströmer’s best translators into English, she is co-translator of The Star By My Head: Poets from Sweden. Morling’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Boulevard, New England Review and elsewhere, and she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, multiple Lannan Foundation Fellowships, and the Rona Jaffe Award. She is on the faculty of the Low-Residency MFA program at New England College and is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Born in Stockholm, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sweden has long been home to a rich and luminous poetic tradition, notable for refreshing openness, striking honesty, and a rare transcendence that often springs from a keen attention to the natural world. This breathtaking anthology brings together eight of the country’s most highly regarded poets, from the early twentieth century onward.
