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Biography
ANNA DEENY MORALES is a literary critic, translator of poetry, and dramatist. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University as well as the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College. At Harvard, she was named an "Inspiring Latina" by Latinas Unidas and awarded two Derek Bok Excellence in Teaching Certificates. She currently teaches at the Center for Latin American Studies, and her book, Other Solitudes: Essays on Consciousness and Poetry, is forthcoming in 2022.
Deeny Morales is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for her translation of Tala by Nobel Laureate, Gabriela Mistral. Her translations of Raúl Zurita’s poetry include Sky Below, Selected Works (Northwestern University Press, 2016), of which she is also the editor; Dreams for Kurosawa (arrow as aarow press, 2011); and Purgatory (University of California Press, 2009). Shearsman Press published her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik’s Diana’s Tree in 2020, and Mercedes Roffé’s Floating Lanterns in 2015. Composer Theresa Wong set selections of Floating Lanterns to music during her residency at The Stone, The New School, New York City, in 2018, and for a Long Beach Opera commission in 2020. Forthcoming translations include a volume of selected works by Nicanor Parra (New Directions), of which she is also the editor.
Original works in opera include ¡ZAVALA-ZAVALA! an opera in v cuts, commissioned by the University of Carolina, Charlotte, and composer Brian Arreola. Dedicated to families separated under the Trump administration at the Mexico-US border, ¡ZAVALA-ZAVALA! will debut at the Kennedy Center with the Post-Classical Ensemble and the In Series in 2022. Recent adaptations of zarzuelas include Gonzalo Roig’s Cecilia Valdés (2018), and La Paloma at the Wall (2019), an adaptation of Tomás Bretón's La verbena de la Paloma. Both were commissioned by the In Series and performed at Gala Hispanic Theater in Washington, DC. Original works for contemporary dance and theater include La straniera (1997), an adaptation of Medea by Euripides, and Tela di Ragno (1999–2002), inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. Both were commissioned by Il Balletto di Spoleto and performed in Italy and Spain.
Deeny Morales has served as a judge for the National Translation Award in Poetry and an expert reader for the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship competition. She currently sits on the board of directors of the In Series and chairs the Gabriela Mistral Youth Poetry Competition, supported by the Celtino Foundation, the Chilean Embassy, and the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress.
She has guest edited literary journals such as Almost Island, based in Mumbai, India; and her essays and translations of poetry have appeared in anthologies and journals such as the Paris Review, Mandorla, BOMB, and the Harvard Review.
Productions
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| COMPANY | TITLE | DATES | IN Series | Zavala-Zavala | 4/8/2022 - 4/9/2022 |
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