Y2001 Author
Sena Jeter Naslund
Recipient of the Harper Lee Award and chosen Alabama Writer of the Year 2001, Sena Jeter Naslund’s national best-selling novel Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer was selected by Time Magazine and by Book Sense as one of the five best novels of 1999; it appeared on the Notable Book lists of the New York Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly and was a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Also in 1999, Sena published a collection of short stories, many of them set in Birmingham or in Alabama, titled The Disobedience of Water. Both books are now available as Harper perennial paperbacks, which will re-release her 1993 novel Sherlock in Love in August 2001. Currently, Sena is under contract with HarperCollins for a civil rights novel set in Birmingham in the early 1960s.
At Spalding University, Louisville, Sena Jeter Naslund directs a new Master of Arts in Writing Program based on brief residency at Spalding and mentoring through correspondence. She is also Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville and has taught in the MFA programs of the University of Montana, Indiana University, and Vermont College. She is co-editor of the literary magazine The Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis Press.
Sena Jeter Naslund was born in Birmingham, attended Norwood Elementary School, Phillips High School, and Birmingham-Southern College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. The author of five books, her short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The American Voice, and many other journals. (The Author)
Bibliography:
Ahab's
Wife
The Animal Way to Love
The
Disobedience Of Water
Ice Skating at the North Pole
Remembered Gate
Sherlock in Love
Last Updated:
04 April 2003
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