Jacinda Townsend

Jacinda Townsend studied at Harvard University and Duke University Law School before receiving her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing at Indiana University. Saint Monkey is her first novel.

Jacinda Townsend

Jacinda Townsend studied at Harvard University and Duke University Law School before receiving her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing at Indiana University. Saint Monkey is her first novel.

Awards

Winner — Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, 2014

Commended — Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award, 2015

Longlisted — Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2014

Books by Jacinda Townsend

  • Saint Monkey: A Novel

    Jacinda Townsend

    Paperback, 2015

    A stunning debut novel of two girls raised in hardship, separated by fortune, and reunited through tragedy.
  • Saint Monkey: A Novel

    Jacinda Townsend

    E Book, 2014

    A stunning debut novel of two girls raised in hardship, separated by fortune, and reunited through tragedy.