Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S., was born at Naval Air Station Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Houma, Louisiana. He is a founding member of Writing Louisiana, a committee of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and is a member of the Comité de Sélection du Poète Lauréat(e) de la Louisiane. Since 2019 he has served on the Board of Directors of the LEH, and he is a member of the Advisory Council for the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program. He is author of Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne; Livestock Brands and Marks: An Unexpected Bayou Country History: 1822–1946 Pioneer Families: Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; and Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne: Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, all distributed by University Press of Mississippi. He and his wife Cindy reside on Bayou Black outside Houma.
