About me
Janisse Ray is an award-winning American author who explores the borderland of nature and culture. Her bestselling first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a New York Times Notable. This environmental memoir tells the story of growing up in the disappearing longleaf pine flatwoods and is credited with starting a movement to restore an iconic and critically endangered landscape. Ray followed that book with eleven others. She has won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Booksellers Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Award, Nautilus Award, Eisenberg Award, and the Donald Jorden Prize for Literary Excellence. Her books have been translated into Turkish, French, and Italian. Ray leads workshops on writing both online and in person, where she teaches not only writing technique but how to access the mysteries that make writing great. She lives on an organic farm inland from Savannah, Georgia. She loves dark chocolate, the blues, and anything in flower.