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)
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