Sena jeter naslund biography of michael

Founding Editor Sena Jeter Naslund, Ph.D., M.A., U of Iowa, is the author of the critically-acclaimed, national-bestselling novels Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, Abundance: a Novel of Marie-Antoinette, and six others.

Naslund served as the first director of creative writing at the U of Louisville, where, in 1976, she and students launched The Louisville Review, and where she was awarded the first Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as the university-wide President’s Award for Creative Activity; she also served as founding Program Director of the Spalding MFA in Writing, 2001-2017.

She continues as Founding Editor of the independent TLR and its book press, Fleur-de-Lis. Naslund has taught at the U of Montana, U of Indiana-Bloomington, and Vermont College, and has held Distinguished Visiting Professor positions at the U of Alabama-Huntsville and at Montevallo U.

A recipient of writing grants from the NEA, the KY Arts Council, the KY Women Writers’ Assoc., and of the Harper Lee Award and