Martha Witt is Professor of English and Creative Writing at William Paterson University. She is the author of the novel, Broken As Things Are (Holt, 2004/Picador, 2005). Her translations and short fiction have appeared in multiple anthologies and international literary journals.
In collaboration with Mary Ann Frese Witt, she has translated and published contemporary Italian short stories, two plays by Pirandello — Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italica Press, 2013) and Henry IV (Italica Press, 2016) — and Grazia Deledda’s novels Ivy (Italica Press, 2019) and The Dance of the Necklace (Italica Press, 2023).
Mary Ann Frese Witt is Professor Emerita of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University. Her books include The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013). She has published numerous articles on Pirandello and modern theater.
In collaboration with Martha King, she is the translator of Pirandello’s novel Her Husband (Duke University Press, 2000). In collaboration with Martha Witt, she has translated and published contemporary Italian short stories, two plays by Pirandello — Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italica Press, 2013) and Henry IV (Italica Press, 2016) — and Grazia Deledda’s novels Ivy (Italica Press, 2019) and The Dance of the Necklace (Italica Press, 2023).
