Joni Tevis
Formerly a park ranger, factory worker, and seller of cemetary plots, Joni Tevis is the author of two collections of essays: The World is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, a Kirkus Best Book of 2015, and The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Poets & Writers, Orion, Ecotone, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She serves as the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.
Awards
CLMP Firecracker Award
Kirkus Best Book of 2015
Minnesota State Arts Board Grant
Sign up for occasional updates about this author
Books by Joni Tevis
You Might Enjoy
Blog Post
The next Milkweed Books Subscription pick is here! Read on for more about Edward McPherson's The History of the Future...
Event
Point Reyes Station, CA — 04/04/2023
Writer and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar joins us for a conversation about her new essay collection, Conversations with Birds. "A bird...