https://www.jonitevis.com/team-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1634232923303-P1UTPDRNPYKC50QB57FL/TheWorldIsOnFire_300dpi+%281%29.jpg Books - The World Is On Fire Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1634232596166-CBUV9DSO7HONZA92TQO1/wetcollection%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.JPG Books - 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.” https://www.jonitevis.com/what-we-do daily 0.75 2021-08-04 https://www.jonitevis.com/essays daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1634237015764-1TS5CDDSZA1LTK5ZDCYA/eyeglasses.JPG Essays - Take a closer look. https://www.jonitevis.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-20 https://www.jonitevis.com/upcoming-events daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1634236132246-7MEGYWOREMPQYV072MC6/where+are+you+going.JPG Upcoming Events - Upcoming Events: Or, Where Am I Going, Where Have I Been? In June 2026, I’ll teach a writing workshop beside Lake Bemidji as part of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. Come join us! What a joy to read new work at the University of Texas-Dallas in March 2026. My thanks to Charles Hatfield, Gretchen VanWormer, and all the students for their warmth and hospitality. https://www.jonitevis.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1641843576364-6D4Q68HRA0ENB18PSW21/_04A8514_JPEG.jpg Who I Am - Hello, friends. I’m a writer. In my quest to be able to say that, I held many jobs, lived other lives. I sold cemetery plots in Houston, Texas (not very well). I packed parts in a machine shop. And I was a park ranger in South Carolina, Georgia, and Oregon, where I dressed up as J.R. Beaver on Friday afternoons, inadvertently scaring small children. I did my graduate work in creative writing at the University of Houston, and I began teaching there. After that, I taught at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities as the Edelstein-Keller Discovery Fellow, and at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as the Kenan Visiting Writer. Now I teach at Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina, where I serve as the Bennette E. Geer Professor of English. My latest essay collection, The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. My debut collection, The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Two of my essays have won Pushcart Prizes: “If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You,” about hazing, music, and marching band; and “What the Body Knows,” about rafting the Canning River in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. My essays have been published in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Orion, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. In 2020, I received an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. https://www.jonitevis.com/interviews-reviews daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1634319880690-9449NDRK0EFZDCZ8CFE6/sunflower.jpg Interviews & Reviews - Interviews In which I talk with Katie O’Reilly for the Michigan Quarterly Review: In which I talk with the editors of Runestone: In which I talk with the editors of Assay: In which I talk with Jan Bindas-Tenney for The Sonora Review: In which I talk to Adam Kullberg for Terrain (bonus pix of specimen displays!): In which I talk with Linnie Greene for the Los Angeles Review of Books: In which I talk with Michael Noll for Read to Write Stories: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607e2f60f893df2e8dd2ceb7/1634320023871-5TIMGBAFMOZXJTFG17DD/zinnias.jpg Interviews & Reviews Reviews In which Amy Wright reviews The World Is On Fire for Kenyon Review In which D.J. Lee reviews The World Is On Fire for the Los Angeles Review of Books In which Nina Boutsikaris reviews The World Is On Fire for Brevity In which Tobias Carroll reviews The World Is On Fire for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune From Publishers Weekly So honored to be included in this fine company: Kirkus Reviews Best Books https://www.jonitevis.com/contact-2 daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://www.jonitevis.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b3ed8084b6f00015405ba/1565292381043-ER9AOU1LISY7FVVCNVEQ/20140302_trade+151_0677.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b3ed8084b6f00015405ba/1565292406252-8560GSO2A1FLMFQVTG60/Aro+Ha_0073.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b3ed8084b6f00015405ba/1565292525597-WCO0DS8F9PHF2V1U45HY/20140228_Trade+151_0067+%281%29.jpg Projects https://www.jonitevis.com/partners daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.jonitevis.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.jonitevis.com/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-12