Sarah Townsend - Memoir
Bainbridge
Island author, Sarah Townsend, will launch her new book, Setting the Wire, at Eagle Harbor Books on April 18, 2019 at 7 pm. Setting the Wire is a memoir of
postpartum psychosis and a meditation on containment: what we hold and what
holds us together. A lyric exploration of motherhood, mental illness, and
familial ties, Sarah Townsend weaves together personal anecdote, film, music,
visual art, and psychology. Setting the Wire is a visceral reflection on the
experience of fragmentation as a young psychotherapist and new mother.
Sarah Townsend’s essays
have appeared in The Writer in the World and Pitkin Review. A coauthored paper
with Elisabeth Young-Bruehl serves as a chapter in Subject to Biography:
Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Writing Women’s Lives. Sarah received her MFA in
creative writing from Goddard College, her Master’s in counseling psychology
from Northwestern University, and is a graduate of the College of Letters at
Wesleyan University. She writes, teaches, and practices psychotherapy in and
around Seattle, WA. You can learn more about her at SarahCTownsend.com.
