Jacinda Townsend is an author and a former broadcast journalist and lawyer. Her first novel is called Saint Monkey , and excerpts of her forthcoming second novel, Kif , have appeared in various ...

Jacinda Townsend is the author of "Mother Country" and her debut novel "Saint Monkey," which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa ...