Anna Deeny Morales is a Latina writer who works across genres as a librettist and translator of poetry. Her operas on family love and separation, children, and disappearance have been supported by the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent works include Las Místicas de México (2024) and ZAVALA-ZAVALA, which debuted at the Kennedy Center in 2022. An NEA Fellow for her translation of Gabriela Mistral, she has also translated the poetry of Raúl Zurita, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Amanda Berenguer, among others. Deeny Morales teaches at Georgetown University, and her monograph Other Solitudes: Essays on Consciousness and Poetry is forthcoming in 2028.