Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and the Ohioana Award
Advance Praise for The Wet Collection
“The Wet Collection is simply superb, the work of an innovative young writer deeply immersed in literary tradition. These linked prose pieces, arranged like specimens in a cabinet of curiosities, are concerned with acts of making—the construction of works of art, of history, of interpretation—and their relationship to the natural world. Tevis turns the concept of ‘nature writing’ on its ear, bringing to her studies of the objects and scenes in her wunderkammer a fresh and surprising eye and a wide range of reference. Women’s history, outsider art, geology, the Bible, posing in a beaver suit in a state park: everything fits in this delightful and deeply satisfying book.”
Mark Doty, author of Firebird
“In her stunning debut, Tevis illuminates the dim corners of memory as she draws attention to the fragile connection between human beings and the mysteries that surround us. As the relationship between artifacts and living beings is laid bare, Tevis explores an inescapable human truth with exquisite, poetic prose.”
Diane Wilson, author of Spirit Car
