Martha Witt is a professor of creative writing at William Paterson University. She is the author of the novel Broken as Things Are (Henry Holt, 2004; Picador, 2005). Her short fiction has appeared in several national and international literary journals and anthologies. In collaboration with Mary Ann Frese Witt, she translated Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italica Press, 2013) and Henry IV (Italica Press, 2016), as well as Grazia Deledda’s Ivy (Italica Press, 2019). Grazia Deledda’s Dance of the Necklace, also translated in collaboration with Maryann Witt, is forthcoming from Italica Press this year.
Mary Ann Frese Witt is professor emerita of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University. Her books includeExistential Prisons (Duke University Press, The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Cornell University Press), and Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neo-baroque (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). In addition to the translations in collaboration with Martha Witt, she translated Pirandello’s novel Suo Marito (Her Husband) (Duke University Press) with Martha King.
