Janisse Ray author reading
Name:
Janisse Ray author reading
Date:
February 20, 2014
Time:
7:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Website:
http://www.bookpeopleofmoscow.com
Event Description:
Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is the author of five books of literary nonfiction and a collection of nature poetry. Her most recent book, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food is a look at what’s happening to seeds, which is to say the future of food. The book has won the Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Makes a Difference, American Horticultural Society Book Award, Nautilus Gold Book Award, Garden Writers Association Gold Award, and Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Award.
Ray is the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana 2014. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and in 2007 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Unity College in Maine.
Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a memoir about growing up on a junkyard in the ruined longleaf pine ecosystem of the Southeast, was published by Milkweed Editions in 1999.
The author has been visiting professor and writer-in-residence at many universities and colleges across the county. When at home, Ray attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on Red Earth Farm in southern Georgia with her husband and daughter. Ray is an organic gardener, tender of farm animals, slow-food cook, and seed-saver. She lectures nationally and widely on nature, community, agriculture, wildness, sustainability, and the politics of wholeness.
This reading is sponsored by The UI English Department, Waters of the West Program and anonymous donors.
Ray is the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana 2014. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and in 2007 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Unity College in Maine.
Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a memoir about growing up on a junkyard in the ruined longleaf pine ecosystem of the Southeast, was published by Milkweed Editions in 1999.
The author has been visiting professor and writer-in-residence at many universities and colleges across the county. When at home, Ray attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on Red Earth Farm in southern Georgia with her husband and daughter. Ray is an organic gardener, tender of farm animals, slow-food cook, and seed-saver. She lectures nationally and widely on nature, community, agriculture, wildness, sustainability, and the politics of wholeness.
This reading is sponsored by The UI English Department, Waters of the West Program and anonymous donors.
