{"id":963,"date":"2012-12-13T21:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/13\/5081\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:15:50","slug":"5081","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/5081\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Tevis&#8217; book draws attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/joni-tevis-book-reduced.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5083 lazyload\" title=\"joni-tevis-book-reduced\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/joni-tevis-book-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 204px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 204\/272;\" \/><\/a>Furman English professor Joni Tevis published a collection of essays, <em>The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory<\/em>, in 2007 while living in Minnesota.\u00a0 Tevis\u2019 book found an audience with people who wanted something new, and the paperback version of the book has just been released. \u00a0The <em>MinnPost<\/em> published an article about the new release and its author.<\/p>\n<p>Tevis joined the Furman English faculty in 2008, where she teaches literature and creative writing.\u00a0 Her writing has appeared in <em>Orion<\/em>, <em>Oxford American<\/em>, <em>Shenandoah<\/em>, <em>Conjunctions<\/em>, <em>AGNI<\/em>, <em>The Bellingham Review<\/em>, <em>North Dakota Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Barrelhouse<\/em>, and elsewhere.\u00a0 In 2006, she was awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant.\u00a0 She is a graduate of Florida State University, and holds M.F.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Houston.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/books\/2012\/12\/fossils-bomb-joni-tevis-writes-different-kind-essay\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman English professor Joni Tevis published a collection of essays,\u00a0<em>The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory<\/em>, in 2007 while living in Minnesota. Tevis\u2019 book found an audience with people who wanted something new, and the paperback version of the book has just been released. The <em>MinnPost<\/em> published an article about the new release and its author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}