Sena Jeter Naslund
Photo by Marion
Ettlinger
Sena Jeter Naslund is a native of Birmingham, Alabama; but
since 1973 she has been a part of KY's literary community. She is the author of
six books and received critical acclaim for her national best selling novels
Four Spirits and Ahab's Wife. Ahab's Wife was selected by both
Time and Book Sense as one of the five best novels of 1999 and
appeared on the Notable Book lists of the New York Times Book Review and
Publishers' Weekly in addition to being a main selection of the
Book-of-the-Month Club. She has received numerous awards and grants including
the Harper Lee Award, the Hall-Waters Southern Prize, and the Author Award of
the Southeastern Library Association. She has also been awarded fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the
Kentucky Foundation for Women. A distinguished Writer in Residence at the
University of Louisville and the co-founder, Naslund is program director of the
Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing. Her work
has or is being republished or translated in the United Kingdom and Australia;
and translated into German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Danish. On
October 3, 2006, Dr. Naslund will release a major new revisionist novel
"Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette." She is also working with
collaborators on a stage version of Four Spirits and a stage musical of
Ahab's Wife.
Sena Jeter Naslund's Kentucky Area Book Tour Schedule
Sunday, October 08, 2006
THE SPEED ART MUSEUM
2035 S Third ST
Louisville, KY 40208
502-634-2700
Wednesday, December 06,
2006
JOSEPH BETH BOOKSELLERS
Rookwood Pavillion
2692
Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208
513-731-7770
Thursday,
December 07, 2006
JOSEPH-BETH BOOKSELLERS
Suite B-1, 161
Lexington Green
Lexington, KY 40503
859-271-5330
History of the Kentucky
Poet Laureate
The position of Kentucky Poet Laureate was established in 1926 by an act of the General Assembly. James T. "Cotton" Noe was selected for the position. Prior to 1990, Poets Laureate were appointed to lifetime terms by the Kentucky General Assembly. At times several poets held the position simultaneously. In 1990, new legislation was enacted to provide for the appointment of the new Kentucky Poet Laureate by the governor for a two-year term. The Kentucky Poet Laureate is selected following a call for nominations coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Council. A nominee for this position must be a resident of Kentucky who has a long association with the commonwealth, and is the published author of a critically acclaimed body of work that is informed by living in Kentucky. A panel then reviews the nominations and submits its recommendation to the Governor.
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