Toni Halleen

Toni Halleen worked for many years as an employment law attorney, and she now runs the law firm Schaefer Halleen. Toni was born and raised in the Midwest, earned a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Mount Holyoke College, and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota. She has performed improvisation and used her experience to teach “Think on the Spot” skills to hundreds of professionals. She authored an award-winning musical, “Soulless, Bloodsucking Lawyers.” Toni won a Mentor Prize in Fiction from the Loft Literary Center, and her short fiction has been published in Structo, Wigleaf, Gravel, the Star Tribune, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis.