Malena Mörling is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue (New Issues Press) and Astoria (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her third book of poetry is forthcoming (Alice James Books) in 2026. She has published translations of work by Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer and several other Swedish poets. She edited and translated The Star by My Head, (Milkweed Editions) 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.

"Malena Mörling is one of my favorite living poets. Why? Because her work is timeless. It is as true in our time as it could have been in Dickinson’s or Sappho’s. But what does it mean? It means that she has found a way to ask timeless questions—What is this world? Why are we here? How do we live in time?—in a way that’s fresh and memorable and utterly her own. My proof? Open this book on any page—but preferably from the start, with poems like “See the Second,” “Ars Poetica,” “My First Sea” — and you will happily discover that marvelously lively lyric poetry is very much here, in our time. Mörling’s long-awaited—and luminous—third volume will be one of the books by which our decade is known."
—Ilya Kaminsky, translator of Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

"Can the smallest details of the world hold the immensity of our lives? Malena Mörling’s new poems show us how, pivoting deftly between the intimate and the infinite, superimposing internal and external worlds to reveal how ordinary moments can turn into thresholds of wonder, humor, and metaphysical inquiry. There is truth and grandeur and a deep intellect in these quiet poems. Lumina Station is truly a book of astonishments."
—Jenny George, author of After Image