Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Author Sena Jeter Naslund to visit campus November 10
Sena Jeter Naslund
Photo courtesy of David Stewart
Contact for more information:
Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Naslund is writer in residence and distinguished teaching professor of creative writing at the University of Louisville and serves as founding editor of The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. She is also program director of Spalding University's brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program. Her fiction has been published in many journals including The Indiana Review, The Paris Review, and The Michigan Quarterly Review, from which she won the Lawrence Prize in fiction. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council, Naslund has won the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction Award. She was the State of Kentucky's Poet Laureate for 2005-2006. After her presentation, there will be light refreshments, and the USI Bookstore will have copies of Adam & Eve available for sale and for the author to sign. Faculty are encouraged to have students attend. The event is free and open to the public. Adam & Eve, published in September, will be on three-day reserve at the David L. Rice Library along with six of Naslund's other works of fiction: Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer: A Novel Disobedience of Water: Stories and Novellas Four Spirits: A Novel Ice Skating at the North Pole: Stories and Sherlock in Love: A Novel. The reading, part of the University Core Speaker Series, is also sponsored by Library Services. For more information, contact Ruth Miller, director of Rice Library, at 812/464-1824 or Joanne Artz, assistant director, at 812/465-1056. |
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