The Author

Todd Aaron Jensen is an award-winning journalist with featured bylines in more than 100 publications around the world, including GQ, Esquire, American Way, Spirit, Mean, Icon, Moving Pictures, and Costco Connection. His work is syndicated in more than 60 countries.

Jensen has interviewed hundreds of the world’s most prominent public figures, including filmmakers, musicians, authors, and spiritual leaders, and was recently named a top-five finalist in Greater Los Angeles Press Club’s Entertainment Journalism Awards. University Press of Mississippi has anthologized his interviews with Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, and Jim Harrison. He is a contributor to De Capo Press’s recent Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson.

Father to six, a Kundalini yoga instructor who owns and operates The Yogi Tree in Toluca Lake, as well as a former high school English and film teacher and youth baseball coach, Jensen is a very grateful man.