Toni Halleen worked for many years as an employment law attorney. She 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 also authored an award-winning musical, “Soulless, Bloodsucking Lawyers” and the novels, The Surrogate and The Good Samaritan. Halleen holds a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Minneapolis.