Janisse ray biography of alberta

Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is the author of five books of literary nonfiction and a collection of eco-poetry. Her most recent book, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, looks at the movement to reclaim the genetics of our food supply.

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.

In Ray was awarded an honorary doctorate from LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia, following one from Unity College in Maine in She holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she was the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer

She is a inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

She won the Southern Environmental Law Center Award in journalism for her piece on coal ash, published online in The Bitter Southerner: “From Ashes Such as These,