Sena Jeter Naslund (born June 28, 1942) is an American writer.
[4] In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher named Naslund Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
[5] Thematically, much of Naslund's work explores women who are "marginalized or misunderstood.
"[5] In the bestselling[8][9] Ahab's Wife, for instance, Stacey D'Erasmo suggests "Naslund has taken less than a paragraph's worth of references to the captain's young wife from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and fashioned from this slender rib not only a woman but an entire world.
That world is a looking-glass version of Melville's fictional seafaring one, ruled by compassion as the other is by obsession, with a heroine who is as much a believer in social justice as the famous hero is in vengeance.