Malena Mörling was born in Stockholm in 1965 and grew up in southern Sweden. She is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue and Astoria. Her third book, Lumina Station is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2026. She has published translations of work by Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer and many other Swedish poets. She edited and translated The Star by My Head, an anthology of Swedish poets together with Jonas Ellerström. She has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Dianna L. Bennett Fellowship from the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina, Wilmington.