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)