acTownsend is the author and illustrator of evocata.com.
Townsend studied his craft with artist Doris Nessing, novelist Michael Joyce, and poets Harriet Stolorow, Alan Williamson, and Sandra McPherson, among others.
Blame them not for his audacious aesthetic risks, sardonic skepticism, and cartoon melodrama.
He won the Marjorie Rappaport Award for Poetry as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan.
Hailing from the former Potowatame forests and swamps that drain into the Grand River headwaters, Townsend dwelt 17 years creekside on Ohlone homeland, where it's possible, though rare, to see the random heron. His family now live a few blocks from a former residence of the engineer and humanitarian, Herbert Hoover.
In case you're wondering, acTownsend dissolved his personal relationship with Jesus years ago, although you will see, Townsend has not parted altogether from his story and concerns.