“One of the busiest and most unhurried persons I know, Wendy Townsend is a remarkable teacher, a true mentor. Over the past several years many students have told me how they were nudged off-center by her affection for the language of truth and her uncommon willingness to share her enthusiasm for the writing life with them. ”

- Steve Lewis, Mentor, Empire State College; Instructor, Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, and author of many books, including, Zen and the Art of Fatherhood, and the forthcoming A Month on a Barrier Island.

Author Wendy Townsend

 

Wendy Townsend is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program.

Since 2004 she has lead the Summer Weekend Intensive Workshops in Writing for Children at Empire State College in New Paltz and has worked on independent studies with both undergrad and grad students at Empire State College. She is on the faculty at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and she has been guest faculty for Highlights Founders' Workshops.

In 1993 she coauthored and illustrated Iguanas: A Guide to Their Biology and Captive Care. After she finished her work on Iguanas, she knew that she wanted to write. Her debut fiction novel, Lizard Love, received a Booklist Starred Review.

Her second novel, The Sundown Rule will be published by namelos in 2011. Townsend is at work on her third novel about the Blue Iguana murders that took place on Grand Cayman Island in May, 2008.

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