Martha Witt grew up in Hillsborough, North Carolina, the setting of her novel Broken as Things Are. She has cotranslated several Italian classics, including Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, and translated several others, including Giovanni Verga’s Rustic Chivalry (Italica Press, 2020). She is a professor of English and creative writing at William Paterson University and lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Privilege, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2020–2021