Jacinda Townsend

Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction

jacinda@umich.edu

Office Information:

4183 Angell Hall
hours: Tuesday, 9-11 Wednesday, 3-5

Helen Zell Writers' Program; MFA Faculty; Writing of Fiction; Graduate Faculty

Education/Degree:

MFA, University of Iowa
JD, Duke University
BA, Harvard University

About

Jacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950s Eastern Kentucky and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her second novel, Mother Country, will be published by Graywolf Press in fall of 2022.

Current Courses

ENGLISH 323-003
Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGLISH 571-002
Workshop in Writing Fiction

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Hours:
M-F 8 am - 4:30 pm