Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray, an award-winning author, explores the borderland of nature and culture in her books and popular Substack, Trackless Wild. She wrote the classic environmental memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a story of growing up in the iconic longleaf pine flatwoods.
Ray holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she returned as the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer. She has been the John and Renée Grisham Writer-in Residence at the University of Mississippi and a Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. She serves on the editorial board of Terrain.org and is a lifetime honorary member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and has won the Georgia Author of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received two honorary doctorates.
Ray lives on a farm inland from Savannah, Georgia. She loves dark chocolate, the blues, and wildflowers. There she teaches writing courses online in her Magical Craft series. Journey in Place is her eleventh book.
Janisse Ray, an award-winning author, explores the borderland of nature and culture in her books and popular Substack, Trackless Wild. She wrote the classic environmental memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a story of growing up in the iconic longleaf pine flatwoods.
Ray holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she returned as the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer. She has been the John and Renée Grisham Writer-in Residence at the University of Mississippi and a Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. She serves on the editorial board of Terrain.org and is a lifetime honorary member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and has won the Georgia Author of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received two honorary doctorates.
Ray lives on a farm inland from Savannah, Georgia. She loves dark chocolate, the blues, and wildflowers. There she teaches writing courses online in her Magical Craft series. Journey in Place is her eleventh book.
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