Sena Jeter Naslund is author of the novels Sherlock in Love, The Animal Way to Love, Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, Abundance, Adam and Eve; and two collections of stories: Ice Skating at the North Pole and The Disobedience of Water. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review (where she won the Lawrence Prize in fiction), The Indiana Review, and The Alaska Quarterly Review. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. Special honors include the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction Award. A native of Birmingham, AL, she is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College. She became a serious student of writing after attending the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference while an undergraduate. She received her MA and PhD degrees in creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop of the University of Iowa. In 1971 she was hired as a Visiting Professor in the MFA program at the University of Montana. The following year, she accepted a teaching position at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, where she directed the creative writing program and was awarded the university’s first Distinguished Teaching Professor honor. Currently she is Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville, program director of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA in Writing, and is Kentucky Poet Laureate. She also is the editor of the Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis Press (both founded by her in 1976). She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and has a daughter, Flora Naslund, who is a student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program at the University of Louisville.