Joni Tevis is a writer. Her latest essay collection, The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse (Milkweed Editions), was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. Her debut collection, The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory (Milkweed Editions), was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her essay “What the Body Knows,” about rafting the Canning River in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, won a Pushcart Prize.