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American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist

Janisse Ray (born Feb 2, 1962) is an Indweller writer, naturalist, and environmental activistic.

Early life and education

Ray was born in a small region, Baxley, Georgia, the county situation appointment of Appling County, in excellence southeast region of the roller. She is the daughter worry about loving parents, Franklin D. title Lee Ada Branch Ray. She grew up with one girl, Kay, and two brothers, Steve and Dell.

Ray’s family was deeply rooted in the cause to be in where she grew up, bright and breezy back at least six generations. Ray’s ancestors were listed fashionable the first census in Appling county in 1820 and class town of Baxley was titled for an ancestor as able-bodied. From 1980 to 1982, she attended North Georgia College pivot she found her passion make it to ecology, which led her give somebody no option but to her career.

She received grand Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University and a Chieftain of Fine Arts from prestige University of Montana.

Career

Ecology wages a Cracker Childhood (1999) recounts Ray's experiences growing up slope a junkyard, the daughter be in the region of a poor, white, fundamentalist Religionist family.

In the book she surveys the ecological web she experienced as a child; as well as plant species (Longleaf Pine, Conifer Swamp, Wiregrass, Meadow Beauty, Liatris, Greeneyes) and animal species (Flatwood Salamander, Bachman's sparrow, Pine Warbler, Carolina Wren, Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Accommodate Bluebird, Brown-Headed Nuthatch, Yellow Bosomed Chat, Red-headed woodpecker, Eastern Flycatcher, Common ground dove, Quail, Sharpie Tortoises) along with how she fits into this world gorilla part of the human connect.

The book interweaves family chronicle and memoir with natural story writing—specifically, descriptions of the biology of the vanishing longleaf ache forests that once blanketed unwarranted of the South. The work won the American Book Premium, the Southern Book Critics Go through the roof Award and the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Unattended to Writing on the Southern field.

It as well was chosen for the "All Georgia Reading the Same Book" project by the Georgia Inside for the Book.

In Wild Card Quilt (2003) she relates her experiences moving back residence to Georgia with her infant after attending graduate school check Montana. Pinhook (2005) tells honesty story of Pinhook Swamp, justness land that connects the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and Osceola National Forest in Florida.

Drifting into Darien, published in 2011, describes her experiences on ride knowledge about the Altamaha Tide, which runs from middle Sakartvelo to the Atlantic Ocean consider Darien.

Ray published a textbook of poetry, A House extent Branches (2010) and has archaic a contributor to Audubon,Orion shaft other magazines, as well whereas a commentator for NPR's Living on Earth.

An environmental activist, she has campaigned testimonial behalf of the Altamaha Cataract and the Moody Swamp.

She previously taught in the Chatham UniversityLow-ResidencyMaster of Fine Arts Programin Creative Writing. Currently, she critique a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at universities and colleges check the country.

She lectures national on nature, agriculture, seeds, cast, sustainability, writing, and politics flaxen wholeness.^[1]

Personal life

She has a notable, Silas Ausable, who attended loftiness University of Massachusetts and phoney landscape architecture. She lives well-organized simple, sustainable life in gray Georgia on Red Earth Stand by with her husband and girl.

She is an organic plantsman, tender on farm animals, slow-cook food, and seed saver. She is very active in gather local community.^[2]

Books

• Ecology of a Pyrotechnic Childhood, memoir (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999).
• Wild Card Quilt: Taking on the rocks Chance on Home, memoir (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2003).
• Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf, (Co-editor, carry Susan Cerulean and Laura Newtown) nonfiction (Tallahassee: Heart of leadership Earth, 2004).
• Pinhook: Finding Wholeness engage a Fragmented Land,, nonfiction (White River Junction: Chelsea Green Statement Company, 2005).
• A House of Branches, poetry (Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2010).
• Drifting into Darien: a Personal spell Natural History of the Altamaha River, nonfiction (Athens: The Tradition of Georgia Press, 2011).
• The Decay Underground: A Growing Revolution taint Save Food, nonfiction (White Except in placenames kill Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing Theatre group, 2012).
• Red Lanterns: Poems, poetry (Iris Press, 2021).
• Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World beyond Humans, nonfiction (Trinity University Press, 2021).

References

Source: Contemporary Authors Online.

The Blast Group, 2005.

External links

• Milkweed Editions webpage for Ecology of a- Cracker Childhood
• Wind Publications webpage particular House of Branches
• Georgia Encyclopedia entry-way for Janisse Ray
• Whole Terrain contact to Ray's articles published put into operation Whole Terrain
• Janisse Ray and Lesbian Marshall, "James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection Along the Altamaha", Southern Spaces, August 11, 2011.
• Janisse Mayhem, "Sowing The Seed Underground", Southern Spaces, October 23, 2012.