Marla Moffa

Marla Moffa was born in Massachusetts and has been living in Italy for more than twenty years. A theater director, writer, and translator of Italian literature, she has published two children’s books: Il leone con gli occhiali (2019) and Non ti senti speciale? (2021). Her first collection of short plays, Tre pièces da Borges, is forthcoming. Her father, Mario Moffa, a professor of Italian language and literature at Mount Holyoke College, was the author of Eugenio Montale, Lettura della Farfalla di Dinard (1986).
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