Toni Jensen is an NEA Fellow who teaches in the creative writing and translation programs at the University of Arkansas and in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her debut story collection From the Hilltop was published by Bison Books. Her work has been published in journals such as Orion, Catapult, and Ecotone and anthologized in New Stories from the South, Best of the Southwest, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, among others. Toni Jensen is Métis.