Toni Halleen

Toni Halleen is a Minneapolis-based writer who spent many years as an employment law attorney and now runs the firm Schaefer Halleen. Her short fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Structo, Gravel, and the Star Tribune. She won a Mentor Prize in Fiction from the Loft Literary Center. Her debut novel, The Surrogate, was published by HarperCollins in 2021. Halleen holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Minnesota School of Law. Her second novel, The Good Samaritan, was published by HarperCollins in 2025.