Janisse Ray, writer, naturalist and activist, will give the Willson Center-EECP Odum Lecture at 4 p.m. on
Tuesday, November 3, in the Chapel.

Ray is author of Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a
Fragmented Land(2005), Card Quilt: Taking a
Chance on Home(2003) and Ecology of a Cracker
Childhood(1999).

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a memoir about
growing up on a junkyard in the ruined longleaf pine
ecosystem of the Southeast, won the Southeastern
Booksellers Award for Nonfiction 1999, an American
Book Award 2000, the Southern Environmental Law
Center 2000 Award for Outstanding Writing, and the
Southern Book Critics Circle Award 2000. It was a
New York Times Notable Book and was chosen as the
Book All Georgians Should Read.

Ray co-edited Between Two Rivers: Stories from the
Red Hills to the Gulf(2004). She has published articles
in Audubon, Grays Sporting Journal, Hope, Natural
History, Oprah Magazine, Orion, Sierraand The
Washington Post. She is anthologized in A Road Runs
Through It; Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent;
Elemental South: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water; The
Roadless Yaak; and The Norton Anthology of Nature
Writing.

Ray lectures on nature, community, sustainability
and the politics of wholeness. As an organizer and
activist she works to create sustainable communities,
local food systems, a stable global climate, intact
ecosystems, clean rivers, life-enhancing economies, and participatory democracy.

DVD available for checkout from UGA Center for Teaching and Learning and the EECP Library