Books
The World Is On Fire
In this essay collection, I reckon with the uniquely American fascination with apocalypse. From a haunted widow’s wildly expanding mansion, to atomic test sites in the Nevada desert, to the abandoned textile mills of upstate South Carolina, my settings are often places of destruction and loss. Yet I work to transform those eerie destinations into sites of creation and connection.
Said Amy Leach: “This is a whale of a book, bringing us the most wonderful things from the ends of the earth.”
Said Kirkus Reviews (starred): “Evocative essays on faith, life and wonder. In these lyrical, finely crafted pieces, like poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Mary Oliver, Tevis sees the natural world imbued with spiritual power. ‘A strange glow marks this seam between life and death,’ she says. That seam glows fiercely, startlingly bright, in these rich, revelatory essays.”
The Wet Collection
Using such models as Joseph Cornell’s box constructions, crazy quilts, and specimen displays, I place fragments in relationship to each other in order to puzzle out lost histories, particularly those of women.
Said Mark Doty: “Everything fits in this delightful and deeply satisfying book.”
Said Orion: “Sheer entertainment in the richest sense of the word.”
Anthologies
So happy to have work included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology
Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism
Which includes my essay about the Sarah Winchester House, in San Jose, California
Which includes my essay about making acorn bread
(Some of) my thoughts about non-narrative essays
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction
A different kind of travel essay
Outdoor Adventures in the Upcountry
In which I walk through a stand of beetle-killed pines after dark