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Sena Jeter Naslund

American writer (born )

Sena Jeter Naslund (born June 28, ) is an American writer. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her novel, Ahab's Wife, and her novel, Four Spirits, were each named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[1][2] She is the Writer in Residence at University of Louisville[3] and the program director for the MFA in Writing at Spalding University in the same city.[4] In , Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.[5][6]

Biography

Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in Birmingham, Alabama in to Marvin Luther Jeter, a physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Lee (Sims) Jeter, a music teacher.[7]

In she earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College. She completed her Master of Arts and PhD at the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.[5]

Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are "marginalized or misunderstood."[5] In the bestselling[8][9]Ahab's Wife, for instance, Stacey D'Erasmo suggests

"Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from Herman Melville'sMoby-Dick and fashioned from this slender rib not only a woman but an entire world. That world is a looking-glass version of Melville's fictional seafaring one, ruled by compassion as the other is by obsession, with a heroine who is as much a believer in social justice as the famous hero is in vengeance."[10]

She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, at St. James Court, in the former home of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein.[7]

Works

Short stories and novellas

  • Ice Skating at the North Pole: Stories ()
  • The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas ()

Novels

  • Sherlock In Love ()
  • The Animal Way to Love ()
  • Ahab's Wife: or, The Star-Gazer ()
  • Four Spirits ()
  • Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette ()
  • Adam & Eve ()
  • The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman ()

References

  1. ^"Notable Books ". New York Times. December 5, Retrieved January 8,
  2. ^"Notable Books ". New York Times. December 7, Retrieved January 8,
  3. ^"Faculty Page". Department of English. University of Louisville. Retrieved January 8,
  4. ^"Letter". MFA. Spalding University. Archived from the original on December 27, Retrieved January 15,
  5. ^ abcDixon, Rob (August 18, ). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved January 8,
  6. ^Runyon, Keith (February 18, ). "Louisvillean named state's poet laureate". Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky: Gannett. Retrieved January 8,
  7. ^ abWadler, Joyce (October 19, ). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved January 8,
  8. ^Dunn, Adam (November 3, ). "'Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund epic success". CNN. Retrieved January 8,
  9. ^"Best Sellers". New York Times. January 14, Retrieved January 8,
  10. ^D'erasmo, Stacey (October 3, ). "Call me Una". New York Times. Retrieved January 8,

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