Janisse Ray
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Janisse Ray (born February 2, 1962) is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist.
Early life and education
Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, the county seat of Appling County, in the state's southeast region. Franklin D. and Lee Ada Branch Ray, her foster parents, are the daughter of a loving family. Kay was raised by her one sister and two brothers, Steve and Dell, as she grew up. Ray's family roots were deeply embedded in the area where she grew up, going back at least six generations. Ray's ancestors were identified in the first census in Appling county in 1820, and the town of Baxley was named for an ancestor as well. She enrolled North Georgia College from 1980 to 1982, where she discovered her love for ecology, which led to her career. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Montana.
Personal life
Silas Ausable, a student at the University of Massachusetts, studied landscape architecture, has a son. On Red Earth Farm in southern Georgia, she and her husband and daughter live a simple, healthy life. She is an organic gardener, tender on farm animals, slow-cook food, and seed saver. She is very involved in her local community.
Career
Ray's growing up in a junkyard, the daughter of a poor, white, fundamentalist Christian family, recalls his childhood (1999). In the book, she explores the human web as a child, including plant species (Longleaf Pine, Cypress Swamp, Meadow Beauty, Liatris, Greeneyes), and animal species (Flatwood Salamander, Bachman's sparrow, Pine Warbler, East Woodpecker, Brown-Headed Chat, Brown-Headed Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Yellow-headed Woodpecker, Common ground dove, Quail, Gopher The book weaves family history and memoir with natural history writing, focusing on the ecology of the vanishing longleaf pine forests that once blanketed a large portion of the South. The book was recognized for outstanding writing on the Southern environment by the American Book Critics Circle Award and the Southern Environmental Law Center. The Georgia Center for the Book also selected it for the "All Georgia Reading the Same Book" project.
In Wild Card Quilt (2003), she recounts her move back to Georgia with her son after attending graduate school in Montana. Pinhook Swamp in Georgia and Osceola National Forest in Florida, by Pinhook (2005). Drifting into Darien, a book that was published in 2011, tells her experiences and observations of the Altamaha River, which runs from middle Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean at Darien.
Ray wrote A Book of Poetry (2010) and has contributed to Audubon, Orion, and other journals, as well as a commentator for NPR's Living on Earth. She has campaigned for the Altamaha River and the Moody Swamp.
She has worked in the Chatham University Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. She is presently a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at universities and colleges around the country. She writes about nature, agriculture, seeds, wildness, conservation, writing, and politics of wholeness nationally.