![]() ![]() ![]() Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is a professor in Literature at American University. Jacinda Townsend is the author of Mother Country (Graywolf, 2022) and Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation, the Center for Mark Twain Studies, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Ms., Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and Believer Magazine. ![]() ![]() Her first novel is called Saint Monkey, and excerpts of her forthcoming second novel, Kif, have appeared in various. Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood and editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity, two anthologies by women writers. Jacinda Townsend is an author and a former broadcast journalist and lawyer. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Jacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. Watch the live stream of this event here!Ī transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood from an award-winning author. This event is free with first come, first served seating. Please see in-store for mask requirements. ![]()
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