In 1999, she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award Mörling was born in Stockholm, Sweden 1965.
[citation needed] She is currently Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington[1] and Core Faculty in The Low Residency MFA program at New England College.
[2] Mörling has received exceptional praise for both "Ocean Avenue" and "Astoria" by editors and poets.
"[This quote needs a citation] Gerald Stern wrote: "Malena Mörling's passion is for observing.
She sees everything--victims, suicides, lost mothers, compulsive counters, blind women in buses--with a penetrating eye.