About the Author

​Toni Jensen’s Carry is a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and Indigenous women’s lives (Ballantine 2020) and was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist and aNew York Times Editors’ Choice Book.  An NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient in 2020, Jensen’s essays have appeared in Orion, Catapult and Ecotone. She teaches at the University of Arkansas and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Métis.
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The Masters Review Anthology Volume XII collects ten stories and essays from the best emerging writers around the world, selected by guest judge Toni Jensen. In this anthology, you’ll find stories about good daughters and difficult mothers, unfaithful partners and dutiful grandchildren. They’ll take you to peppermint distilleries and exotic zoos, all the way to the edge of the world. Take a chance on these emerging masters of craft, and we promise you’ll be surprised.