Toni Jensen

This week we visit with Toni Jensen in Springdale, Arkansas.  Toni Jensen’s Carry is a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and Indigenous women’s lives (Ballantine 2020). An NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient in 2020, Jensen's essays have appeared in Orion, Catapultand Ecotone. She is also the author of the short story collection From the Hilltop. She teaches at the University of Arkansas and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Métis. For more on Toni: tonijensen.com Toni's Books on the Bed: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Winter in the Blood by James Welch Grassland by Richard Manning Hum by Jamaal May This Is Not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Matt's Gifts for Toni: Silver Box by Natachee Momaday Gray The Antidote by Karen Russell  Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border by Octavio Solis   Graphic Design by Nathaniel Roy Design Music by Eliza Edens from her album Time Away From Time (2020)