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'''Sena Jeter Naslund''' (28 June, 1942- ) is an [[United States|American]] [[writer]]. She has published seven [[novel]]s and two collections of [[short fiction]]. Her 1999 novel, ''Ahab's Wife'', and her 2003 novel, ''Four Spirits'', were each named a [[New York Times Notable Book| ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Notable Books 1999 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/05/reviews/notable-fiction.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |date=5 December 1999 |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Notable Books 2003 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/review/1207books-notable-fiction.html?pagewanted=all |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |date=7 December 2003 |accessdate=8 January 2014 }} </ref> She also serves as [[Writer in Residence]] at [[University of Louisville]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://louisville.edu/english/faculty-staff/faculty/naslund.html |title=Faculty Page |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website=Department of English |publisher=University of Louisville |accessdate=8 January 2014}}</ref> In 2005, Governor [[Ernie Fletcher]] named Naslund [[Poet Laureate]] of [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2009 |title=Sena Jeter Naslund |last1=Dixon |first1=Rob |last2= |first2= |date=18 August 2011 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation |accessdate=8 January 2014 |}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |last=Runyon |first=Keith |date=18 February 2005 |title=Louisvillian named state's poet laureate |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20050218/NEWS01/502180420/ |newspaper=Courier-Journal |location=Louisville, Kentucky |publisher=Gannett |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref>
'''Sena Jeter Naslund''' (28 June, 1942- ) is an [[United States|American]] [[writer]]. She has published seven [[novel]]s and two collections of [[short fiction]]. Her 1999 novel, ''Ahab's Wife'', and her 2003 novel, ''Four Spirits'', were each named a [[New York Times Notable Book| ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Notable Books 1999 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/05/reviews/notable-fiction.html |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |date=5 December 1999 |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Notable Books 2003 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/review/1207books-notable-fiction.html?pagewanted=all |newspaper=New York Times |location= |publisher= |date=7 December 2003 |accessdate=8 January 2014 }} </ref> She is the [[Writer in Residence]] at [[University of Louisville]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://louisville.edu/english/faculty-staff/faculty/naslund.html |title=Faculty Page |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website=Department of English |publisher=University of Louisville |accessdate=8 January 2014}}</ref> and the Program Director for the MFA in Writing at [[Spalding University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spalding.edu/academics/mfa-in-writing/mfa-staff/letter-from-sena/ |title=Letter |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website=MFA |publisher=Spalding University |accessdate=15 January 2014}}</ref>. In 2005, Governor [[Ernie Fletcher]] named Naslund [[Poet Laureate]] of [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2009 |title=Sena Jeter Naslund |last1=Dixon |first1=Rob |last2= |first2= |date=18 August 2011 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation |accessdate=8 January 2014 |}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |last=Runyon |first=Keith |date=18 February 2005 |title=Louisvillian named state's poet laureate |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20050218/NEWS01/502180420/ |newspaper=Courier-Journal |location=Louisville, Kentucky |publisher=Gannett |accessdate=8 January 2014 }}</ref>
== Biography ==
== Biography ==


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Sena Jeter Naslund (28 June, 1942- ) is an American writer. She has published seven novels and two collections of short fiction. Her 1999 novel, Ahab's Wife, and her 2003 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[4]. In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.[5] [6]

Biography

Sena Kathryn Jeter was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942 to Marvin Luther Jeter, a physician, who died when she was 15, and Flora Lee Sims Jeter, a music teacher.[7] In 1964 she earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College. She completed her Master of Arts and Ph.D. at the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.[8] Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are "marginalized or misunderstood."[9] In the bestselling[10] [11] Ahab's Wife, for instance, reviewer Stacey D'erasmo suggests "Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from Herman Melville's Moby-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." [12] She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, at St. James Court, the former home of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein.[13]

Works

Short Stories and Novellas

  • Ice Skating at the North Pole: Stories (1989)
  • The Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas (1999)

Novels

  • Sherlock In Love (1993)
  • The Animal Way to Love (1993)
  • Ahab's Wife: or, The Star-Gazer (1999)
  • Four Spirits (2003)
  • Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (2006)
  • Adam & Eve (2010)
  • The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman (2013)

References

  1. ^ "Notable Books 1999". New York Times. 5 December 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Notable Books 2003". New York Times. 7 December 2003. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Faculty Page". Department of English. University of Louisville. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Letter". MFA. Spalding University. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  5. ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  6. ^ Runyon, Keith (18 February 2005). "Louisvillian named state's poet laureate". Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky: Gannett. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  7. ^ Wadler, Joyce (19 October 2006). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  8. ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  9. ^ Dixon, Rob (18 August 2011). "Sena Jeter Naslund". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation. Retrieved 8 January 2014. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  10. ^ Dunn, Adam (3 November 2000). "'Ahab's Wife' brings Sena Jeter Naslund epic success". CNN. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  11. ^ "Best Sellers". New York Times. 14 January 2001. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  12. ^ D'erasmo, Stacey (3 October 1999). "Call me Una". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  13. ^ Wadler, Joyce (19 October 2006). "At Home with Sena Jeter Naslund". New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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