Ray, Janisse: - Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is a seed-saver, seed-exchanger, and seed-banker, and has gardened for twenty-five years.
She attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on a farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters..
She has won a Southern Booksellers Award for Poetry, a Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction, an American Book Award, the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award.
Ray is on the faculty of Chatham University\'s low-residency MFA program, and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
She is the author of several books, including The Seed Underground , Pinhook and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood , a New York Times Notable Book.
Ray, Janisse: - Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is a seed-saver, seed-exchanger, and seed-banker, and has gardened for twenty-five years