Jacinda Townsend author biography, plus links to books by Jacinda Townsend.

Jacinda Townsend

Jacinda Townsend is the author of Mother Country, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Saint Monkey, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. She teaches at Brown University.

This biography was last updated on 09/16/2025.

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