Writing from experience.

Hello friends,

My name is Tony Tekaroniake (Two Skies in the Mohawk language) Evans. I am an author and award-winning journalist/columnist, and writing teacher. I work as a book editor and collaborator. My stories have been published in Atmos, A&E Networks’ History.com, High Country News, Smithsonian’s American Indian Magazine, Mountain Gazette, Boise Weekly, Idaho Mountain Express, The Taos News, The Santa Fe New Mexican and other publications.

After earning a distributed studies B.A.degree in Cultural Anthropology/Biology/Geography from the University of Colorado in Boulder, I was awarded the Expatriate Scholarship to the Prague Summer Writer’s Workshop in 1996 and later studied with Natalie Goldberg, Rick Bass and Antonya Nelson. I am currently working under an Idaho Humanities Council Research Fellowship Grant.

I’m a specialist in "people stories," also travel, art and book reviews, local government reporting, and religion reporting, nonprofits and agriculture. I’ve won 54 Idaho Press Club awards, including fourteen 1st prizes and hit 3,000 deadlines for published news and magazine articles over the past 25 years. For 18 years I have reported for my hometown newspaper The Idaho Mountain Express, which won the top prize for local news reporting and general excellence in the US in 2019 from the National Newspaper Association.

My books include “Teaching Native Pride” (WSU Press 2020), “Memory and Destiny, The Life of Glenn Janss” (Two Skies Books 2021) and “A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area” (Blaine County Historical Museum 2014), which is used in our local school curriculums. I am currently at work on a memoir to be published in 2023 by Washington State University Press’ Basalt Books. I can be reached at twoskies@hotmail.com. 

I’ve interviewed hundreds of people over the years, including Author Peter Matthiessen, biologist and author George Schaller, poet and translator Coleman Barks, Buddhism scholar Robert Thurman, actors Mariel Hemingway, Bruce Dern and Scott Glenn, Shoshone-Bannock Chairman Lionel Boyer, Larry Echohawk,Tenzin Choegyal (The Dalai Lama's brother), NPR's Neal Conan and Will Shortz and numerous other government officials, artists, architects, spiritual leaders, writers, sailors, soldiers, and athletes. My travel articles have brought me to the Kingdom of Tonga, on a recent journey through Yellowstone's Indigenous history, and I’ve spent time with Roma musicians in southern France. I have conducted Creative Writing Workshops in the Sun Valley area since 2004 and am available to discuss writing/editing projects of all kinds. I am a member of the Mohawk Nation, Kahnawake band.