Sena jeter naslund biography of barack obama

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