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Into the Trackless Wild...
Janisse Ray is an American writer whose subject most often falls into the borderland of nature and culture. She has published five books of nonfiction and a collection of eco-poetry. Ray has won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Bookseller Awards, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Awards, and Eisenberg Award, among others. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book. The author has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She lives on an organic farm near Savannah. Red Lanterns, Ray's second book of poetry, is forthcoming in Spring 2021.

UPCOMING eveNTS

2021

April 1-May 1 -- Orion Online Writing Workshop, Info here.

April 9-11 -- Word of South Festival, Tallahassee, FL, with musician and friend Randall Bramblett! www.wordofsouthfestival.com

April 23 -- Release Date, Red Lanterns (Collection of poems)

June 3-4 -- Clarksville Writers Conference, Clarksville, TN

June 6-12 -- Breadloaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Info here.

June 19 -- Venice Area Democratic Club, Venice, FL. 


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