Jacinda Townsend is the author of the novel Saint Monkey (Norton, 2012), which follows the lives of two girls growing up in Eastern Kentucky's Black community shortly after the Korean War. Chapters of the novel have been published in Mythium Journal, WomenArts Quarterly, and in the award-winning journal poemmemoirstory, and an excerpt from the novel earned Jacinda a 2008 Illinois Arts Council grant. Saint Monkey will be published in 2012 by W. W. Norton and Company. Jacinda is working on a new novel written in the serialized voices of a very young Moroccan mother and the American woman who transnationally adopts her child.
Margaret Ronda's book of poems, Personification, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2009 winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently in Aufgabe, AGNI, Pool, Gulf Coast, and Fourteen Hills. She currently teaches American poetry and poetics at Indiana University.
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