Kildegaard, Athena: - Athena Kildegaard was born in Wyoming, grew up in Minnesota, and has lived in Sydney Australia, Chicago, Austin Texas, Oxford Mississippi, New Orleans, and Guanajuato Mexico. She now lives in Morris out west there a ways in Minnesota where she is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She is the recipient of grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board.