Biography
Writer, naturalist and activist Janisse Ray is author of four books of literary nonfiction and a collection of nature poetry. She is on the faculty of Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and in 2007 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Unity College in Maine.
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. Besides being a plea to protect and restore the glorious pine flatwoods of the South, the book looks hard at family, mental illness, poverty, and fundamentalist religion. Essayist Wendell Berry called the book “well done and deeply moving.” Anne Raver of The New York Times said of Janisse Ray, “The forests of the South find their Rachel Carson.”
Ray’s second book, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home, about rural community, was published by Milkweed Editions in early 2003. The third, Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land, the story of a 750,000-acre wildland corridor between south Georgia and north Florida, was published by Chelsea Green in 2005. Drifting into Darien, a personal and natural history of the Altamaha River, was released in fall 2011. Her latest is a nonfiction book on open-pollinated seeds, The Seed Underground (Chelsea Green.)
Her first book of poetry, A House of Branches, came out in 2010 from Wind Publication. Ray is also editor of In One Place and Moody Forest, and co-editor of UnspOILed and Between Two Rivers. She is anthologized widely.
Ray has won a Southern Booksellers Award for Poetry 2011, Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction 1999, an American Book Award 2000, the Southern Environmental Law Center 2000 Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award 2000. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood was a New York Times Notable Book and was chosen as the Book All Georgians Should Read.
She has been visiting professor at Coastal Carolina University, scholar-in-residence at Florida Gulf Coast University, and writer-in-residence at Keene State College and Green Mountain College. She was the John & Renee Grisham writer-in-residence 2003-04 at the University of Mississippi.
Ray attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on a farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters. Ray is an organic gardener, seedsaver, tender of farm animals, and slow-food cook.
She lectures widely on nature, community, agriculture, wildness, sustainability and the politics of wholeness.
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. Besides being a plea to protect and restore the glorious pine flatwoods of the South, the book looks hard at family, mental illness, poverty, and fundamentalist religion. Essayist Wendell Berry called the book “well done and deeply moving.” Anne Raver of The New York Times said of Janisse Ray, “The forests of the South find their Rachel Carson.”
Ray’s second book, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home, about rural community, was published by Milkweed Editions in early 2003. The third, Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land, the story of a 750,000-acre wildland corridor between south Georgia and north Florida, was published by Chelsea Green in 2005. Drifting into Darien, a personal and natural history of the Altamaha River, was released in fall 2011. Her latest is a nonfiction book on open-pollinated seeds, The Seed Underground (Chelsea Green.)
Her first book of poetry, A House of Branches, came out in 2010 from Wind Publication. Ray is also editor of In One Place and Moody Forest, and co-editor of UnspOILed and Between Two Rivers. She is anthologized widely.
Ray has won a Southern Booksellers Award for Poetry 2011, Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction 1999, an American Book Award 2000, the Southern Environmental Law Center 2000 Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award 2000. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood was a New York Times Notable Book and was chosen as the Book All Georgians Should Read.
She has been visiting professor at Coastal Carolina University, scholar-in-residence at Florida Gulf Coast University, and writer-in-residence at Keene State College and Green Mountain College. She was the John & Renee Grisham writer-in-residence 2003-04 at the University of Mississippi.
Ray attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on a farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters. Ray is an organic gardener, seedsaver, tender of farm animals, and slow-food cook.
She lectures widely on nature, community, agriculture, wildness, sustainability and the politics of wholeness.
Books by JANISSE RAY
(with information on ordering)
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Milkweed Editions, 1999, 612.215.2560 or 1.800.520.6455 x560
Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
Milkweed Editions, 2003, 612.215.2560 or 1.800.520.6455 x560
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Chelsea Green, 2005, 802.295.6300 x106
A House of Branches: Poems
Wind Publications, 2010, www.windpub.com
Drifting into Darien: A Personal & Natural History of the Altamaha River
University of Georgia Press, 2011, 800.266.5842
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Chelsea Green, 2012, 802.295.6300 x106
Anthologies Edited by Ray
UnspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida’s Coast
(edited by Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, and A. James Wohlpart)
Red Hills Writers Project, 2010, 850.216.2016
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf
(edited by Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, and Laura Newton)
Red Hills Writers Project, 2004, 850.216.2016
Selected Anthologies Containing Ray’s Work
Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
(edited by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer)
Mercer University Press, 2010, www.mupress.org
Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-Based Writing
(edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Cohen)
University of Utah Press, 2010, www.uofupress.com
Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation
(edited by Lyndsay Moseley)
Sierra Club Books, 2008, www.sierraclub.org/books
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, & Activists Celebrate the Life & Writings of Rachel Carson
(edited by Peter Matthiessen)
Houghton Mifflin, 2007, www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild
(edited by K. Linda Kivi)
Maa Press, British Columbia, 2007, www.maapress.ca
A Road Runs Through It
(edited by Thomas Reed Petersen)
Johnson Books, 2006, 303.443.9766
Where the Mountain Stands Alone
(edited by Howard Mansfield)
University Press of New England & Monadnock Institute, 2006, 603.899.4010
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent & American Crisis, Southern Solutions
(edited by Tony Dunbar)
NewSouth Books, 2004 & 2007, 334.834.3556
Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
(edited by Dorinda Dallmeyer)
University of Georgia Press, 2004, www.ugapress.org
The Roadless Yaak
(edited by Rick Bass)
Lyons Press, 2002, 406.295.9736 or www.lyonspress.com
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Milkweed Editions, 1999, 612.215.2560 or 1.800.520.6455 x560
Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
Milkweed Editions, 2003, 612.215.2560 or 1.800.520.6455 x560
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Chelsea Green, 2005, 802.295.6300 x106
A House of Branches: Poems
Wind Publications, 2010, www.windpub.com
Drifting into Darien: A Personal & Natural History of the Altamaha River
University of Georgia Press, 2011, 800.266.5842
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Chelsea Green, 2012, 802.295.6300 x106
Anthologies Edited by Ray
UnspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida’s Coast
(edited by Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, and A. James Wohlpart)
Red Hills Writers Project, 2010, 850.216.2016
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf
(edited by Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, and Laura Newton)
Red Hills Writers Project, 2004, 850.216.2016
Selected Anthologies Containing Ray’s Work
Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
(edited by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer)
Mercer University Press, 2010, www.mupress.org
Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-Based Writing
(edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Cohen)
University of Utah Press, 2010, www.uofupress.com
Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation
(edited by Lyndsay Moseley)
Sierra Club Books, 2008, www.sierraclub.org/books
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, & Activists Celebrate the Life & Writings of Rachel Carson
(edited by Peter Matthiessen)
Houghton Mifflin, 2007, www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild
(edited by K. Linda Kivi)
Maa Press, British Columbia, 2007, www.maapress.ca
A Road Runs Through It
(edited by Thomas Reed Petersen)
Johnson Books, 2006, 303.443.9766
Where the Mountain Stands Alone
(edited by Howard Mansfield)
University Press of New England & Monadnock Institute, 2006, 603.899.4010
Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent & American Crisis, Southern Solutions
(edited by Tony Dunbar)
NewSouth Books, 2004 & 2007, 334.834.3556
Elemental South: An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
(edited by Dorinda Dallmeyer)
University of Georgia Press, 2004, www.ugapress.org
The Roadless Yaak
(edited by Rick Bass)
Lyons Press, 2002, 406.295.9736 or www.lyonspress.com
Planning
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PAST READINGS, LECTURES, AND SIGNINGS:
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2012
Book Tour for The Seed Underground Aug. 10, 2012 Moultrie, GA -- Moultrie-Colquitt County Public Library, reading for The Seed Underground, 6:30 p.m. (Contact Aileen McNair at ram@mccls.org or Jinx Stubbs at jxstubbs @ yahoo.com) Aug. 11 Moultrie, GA -- Writing Your Own Story, workshop, 9. a.m. Moultrie-Colquitt Co. Public Library (pre-registration required. Contact Aileen McNair at ram @ mccls.org) Aug. 17 Peachtree City, GA -- Memoir Workshop, part of One Book, One Community celebration, 10-4, Peachtree City, GA (preregistration required. Contact Jill Prouty at jillprouty @ peachtree-city.org) Aug. 17 Peachtree City, GA -- Community Garden Event (Contact Jill Prouty at jillprouty @ peachtree-city.org) Aug. 18 Peachtree City, GA -- Book-signing at Farmers Market (Contact Jill Prouty at jillprouty @ peachtree-city.org) Aug. 18 Peachtree City, GA -- One Book, One Community Talk & Book-signing, 1 p.m. (Contact Jill Prouty at jillprouty @ peachtree-city.org) Aug. 26 Athens, GA -- Fundraiser for GreenLaw's efforts to clean up Rayonier's pollution of Altamaha River, private home (Contact Stephanie Benfield, sbenfield @ greenlaw.org) Aug. 30 St. Simons Island, GA -- Literary Guild of St. Simons Island, Ga. 10:30 a.m., casino (Contact Cary Knapp, cknapp @ ccga.edu) Aug. 31 Jesup, GA -- Kiwanis Club Sept. 1 Decatur, GA -- Decatur Book Festival 4:15-5 p.m., Old Courthouse (Contact Christin Whittington, <christin @ decaturbookfestival.com>) Sept. 2 Decatur, GA -- Decatur Book Festival, 1:15-2 p.m., First Baptist Church w/ Morgan & Seabrook (panel) (Contact Christin Whittington, <christin @ decaturbookfestival.com>) Sept. 5 Atlanta, GA -- Emory University (Contact Sandy Layton <sandy @ georgiaorganics.org>) Sept. 6 Atlanta, GA -- Georgia Organics, Seed & Soil Society, Rhodes Hall (by invitation only. Contact Sandy Layton <sandy @ georgiaorganics.org>) Sept. 7 Asheville, NC -- Malaprop's Bookstore (Contact Alsace Walentine, alsace @ malaprops.com) Sept. 9 Macon, GA -- Master Gardeners of Central Georgia Garden Social, Richard George Gardens (by invitation only. Contact Richard S. George, rsgeorge @ mindspring.com) Sept. 13 Charlottesville, VA -- New Dominion Bookshop, 5:30 p.m. (Contact Mitzi Ware, <mitziware @ hotmail.com>) Sept. 14 Charlottesville, VA -- Heritage Harvest Festival, Monticello, 2-2:45, Visitors Center Museum Shop (Contact Dawn Story, <dawn @ newmoonnaturals.com>) Sept. 15 Charlottesville, VA -- Heritage Harvest Festival, Monticello, 2-3 p.m. Workshop & 3:15-4, Sales Tent for Book-Signing (Contact Dawn Story, <dawn @ newmoonnaturals.com>) Sept. 23 Lexington, KY -- Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 3 p.m. (Contact Michael Cruikshank, mcruikshank @ josephbeth.com) Sept. 24 Berea, KY -- Berea College, Dinners on the Grounds, 11:45-1 p.m. (Contact Chris Green Christopher_Green @ berea.edu) Sept. 25 Bowling Green, KY -- Western Kentucky University (Contact Jane Olmstead, jane.olmsted @ wku.edu) Sept. 26 Hopkinsville, KY -- Hopkinsville Community College, Noon. (Contact Ken Casey, ken.casey@kctcs.edu) Oct. 3 Atlanta, GA -- Atlanta Botanical Garden, 7-8 p.m. (Contact Tracy McClendon <tmcclendon @ atlantabotanicalgarden.org>) Oct. 12-13 Nashville, TN -- 24th annual Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word. I'll be speaking on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 1-2 p.m. in the Nashville Public Library, Room 1A, with chef Jeremy Barlow: Eat What You Sow: Two Paths to Culinary Consciousness. (Contact Serenity Gerbman <serenity @ humanitiestennessee.org>) Oct. 14 Knoxville, TN -- Union Avenue Books, 2 p.m. (Contact Flossie at mail@unionavebooks.com) Oct. 24 Atlanta, GA -- Oxford College (Contact Theodosia Wade, twade @ emory.edu) Oct. 25 Statham, GA (outside Athens) -- Ladies Homestead Gathering (Contact Cyndi Ball, cyndi@thelazybfarm.com) Oct. 28 Savannah, GA -- Food Day Savannah, 11-6. (Contact Well Fed Magazine, info@wellfedsavannah.com) Oct. 31 Tallahassee, FL -- Tallahassee Sustainability Summit, Turnbull Conference Center, starting 8 a.m. (Contact Kathryn Ziewitz, ZiewitzK@leoncountyfl.gov) Nov. 1 Statesboro, GA -- "Statesboro is The Write Place" Author Event (Contact Lynn Lilly, lklilly @ ameritech.net) Nov. 3 Statesboro, GA -- Teaching Creative Nonfiction at the Statesboro Library (Contact Lynn Lilly, lklilly @ ameritech.net) Nov. 9-10 Jekyll Island, GA -- Georgia Literary Festival (Contact Alicia Marin, amarin @ jekyllisland.com) Nov. 12-16 Canton, NY -- St. Lawrence University, as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Contact Valerie Lehr, vlehr @ stlawu.edu) Nov. 16 Millbrook, NY -- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cary Institute auditorium, 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Route 44), 7 p.m. (Contact Lori Quillen, quillenl@caryinstitute.org) Dec. 6-8 Louisville, KY -- ACRES USA Conference. Janisse speaks on Friday, Dec. 7. www.acresusa.com) 2011 Trustees Garden Club, Savannah, Georgia Moultrie-Colquitt County Public Library, Moultrie, Georgia Waycross College, Waycross, Georgia Brunswick Public Library, Brunswick, Georgia "Orion Under the Stars" reading, Natural Areas Association national conference, Tallahassee, FL, with Lola Haskins & Julie Hauserman Keynote address, Natural Areas Association, Tallahassee, FL Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA Bartram Trail Conference, Macon, Georgia Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur, GA, with John Lane "Drifting Into Darien" Book Release Party, Altamaha Riverkeeper, Darien, Georgia "Drifting Into Darien" Book Launch, Athens, Georgia Forest & Field Writer's Workshop, Red Earth Farm, Reidsville, Georgia Muddy Sneakers Fundraiser, Cedar Mountain, NC The Mountain Retreat, The Wilderness Society, Highlands, NC Bartram Trail Society of North Carolina, Franklin, NC City Lights Bookstore, Franklin, NC Appling County Public Library, Baxley, Georgia Hitchcock Woods fundraiser, Aiken, South Carolina Convocation, Rabun Gap Nacoochee School, Rabun Gap, Georgia Southern Independent Booksellers Association, Charleston, South Carolina Environmental Journalism Fellows, Breadloaf, Middlebury College, Vermont Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida Sustainability & Urban Gardening Panel, Studio at 620, St. Petersburg, Florida Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, Georgia "Imagination in the Ruins" weeklong workshop, Wofford College, Glendale, South Carolina National River Rally, Charleston, South Carolina Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, Rabun Gap, Georgia Trustees of Sapelo Foundation, St. Simons Island, Georgia Brown College of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, Virginia Artists for the Climate, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Alexandria, VA Writing Workshop, FSU Marine Lab, Sopchoppy, Florida Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Chattahoochee Nature Center, Roswell, Georgia Environmental Educators of Alabama, Solon Dixon Center, Alabama Upper Etowah River Alliance, Springer Mountain, Georgia Brunswick-Glynn County Public Library, Georgia Georgia Highlands College, Rome & Cartersville, Georgia Ten-year Anniversary of Moody Forest, Baxley, Georgia Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas San Marcos Public Library, San Marcos, Texas "William Bartram's Georgia" Conference, Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia Bartram Environmental Writing Institute, Red Earth Farm, Reidsville, Georgia Coastal Wildscapes, Little St. Simons Island, Georgia Winter Fundraiser for Altamaha Riverkeeper 2010 Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival, Thomasville, Georgia Okefenokee Swamp Refuge volunteer group, Folkston, Georgia Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida Pace University, Pleasantville, New York Dogwood Alliance fundraiser, Raleigh, North Carolina Warren Wilson College writer-in-residence, Swannanoa, North Carolina Malaprop’s Bookshop, Asheville, North Carolina Little Tennessee Watershed Association fundraiser, Franklin, North Carolina The Mountain “Institute for Social Change,” Highlands, North Carolina Longleaf Alliance conference, Columbia, South Carolina Student Energy Summit, Athens, Georgia Mountain Conservation Land Trust annual meeting, Jasper, Georgia Wildbranch Writing Workshop, Craftsbury Common, Vermont Holy Innocents Episcopal Day School, Atlanta, Georgia Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina Abbeville Methodist Church picnic, Abbeville, Georgia Walton High School, Marietta, Georgia Cedar Key Public Library, Florida Siena College, New York State University of New York, Fredonia State University of New York, Oneonta Alabama River Alliance, Montgomery The Macon Telegraph, Macon Georgia Georgia River Network Conference, Jekyll Island Colquitt County Public Library, Moultrie, Georgia Friends of the Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Library, Fitzgerald, Georgia Smith-Gilbert Gardens, Kennesaw, Georgia 2009 Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas A & M University, College Station University of North Texas, Denton Troy University, Troy, Alabama Eugene Odum Environmental Ethics Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania The Nature Conservancy Legacy Club, Little St. Simons Island, Georgia "Nature & the Human Spirit" symposium, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee Stetson University, DeLand, Florida Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon Macon-Jackson Conservation Alliance, Highlands, North Carolina Private Reading for Ann Hartzell, Savannah, Georgia Women Against Nuclear Destruction Banquet, Atlanta, Georgia Pennsylvania Land & Water Conference, State College Rotary Club, Blackshear, Georgia LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia Featherbone Communiversity, Gainesville, Georgia Montevallo Literary Festival, Montevallo, Alabama Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia Headwaters Conference, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina Newberry College, Newberry, South Carolina Georgia Organics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (workshop) Environmental Educators of Georgia conference, Tifton, Georgia Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Erskine College, Due West, South Carolina Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper Fundraiser, Wormsloe Plantation, Savannah, Georgia Georgia Master Gardener Conference, Albany, Georgia Glynn County Public Library, Brunswick, Georgia Cornbread & Sushi Tour from Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina (in Baxley) Daughters of the American Revolution meeting, Baxley, Georgia 2008 “Focus the Nation (on the climate crisis),” University of Georgia, Athens Moody Forest Funders Hike, Baxley, Georgia Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pensylvania Mercyhurst College, “Environment in the Americas” Colloquium, Erie, Pennsylvania Macon Central High School, Macon, Georgia Lynchburg College, Virginia Year of the Environment Lecture, University of Mississippi, Oxford Telephone Conference with The Nature Conservancy Writers Group Maine Land Conservation Conference, Brunswick Satilla Riverkeeper Gala, Hortense, Georgia Book Launch for “Moody Forest,” Baxley, Georgia Wayne County Public Library, Jesup, Georgia Boys & Girls Club Summer Camp, Baxley, Georgia Stegner Lecture, National Marine Educators Conference, Savannah, Georgia Jeff Davis Public Library, Hazlehurst, Georgia Alma Homemaker’s Club, Alma, Georgia Wayne County Historical Society, Jesup, Georgia Whaley Lake, The Nature Conservancy, Jesup, Georgia Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina Middle Georgia College, Cochran, Georgia Center for Whole Communities, Harvest & Courage Festival, Fayston, Vermont Orion Southeast Grassroots Network Gathering, Coastal North Carolina University of North Carolina – Pembroke, North Carolina Waycross-Ware County Public Library, Georgia 2007 Yale University, Agrarian Studies Colloquium University of Maine at Farmington University of Arizona, Tucson, Southern Arizona Geographer’s Association Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville Emory University, Atlanta, Reading Series Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina Woodward Academy, Atlanta Moody Forest, benefit for The Nature Conservancy of Georgia Earth Day, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Florida Native Plant Society Conference, Gainesville University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Environmental Education Unity College, commencement address, Unity, Maine The Nature Conservancy of New Hampshire Highland Communities Initiatives, Trustees of Reservations, Western Massachusetts Environmental Advocacy Program Retreat, Antioch New England Graduate School Colby College, Waterville, Maine Unity College, Center for the Performing Arts, Unity, Maine Benefit for Ogeechee/Canoechee Riverkeeper, with Bobby Kennedy Jr. Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota Society of Friends, Great Barrington, Massachusetts 2006 Memoir Series, Twilight Tea Lounge, Brattleboro, Vermont (Everyone’s Books) “Cornbread and Sushi” symposium, Hickory Hill, Thomson, Georgia Wofford College, Spartanburg “Where the Mountain Stands Alone” conference, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, New Hampshire Warren Wilson College Water celebration & panel discussion, Swannanoa, North Carolina Warren Wilson College, Environmental Leadership Center, Swannanoa, North Carolina Land Trust Alliance Rally, Nashville, Tennessee Forever Wild event, Forest Watch, University of Vermont, Burlington Memoir Café reading series, Heartstone Books, Putney, Vermont Newton County Public Library, Covington, Georgia Montessori School of Covington, Georgia Decatur Book Festival, sponsored by Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Decatur Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, commencement High Street Church, Unitarian Universalist, Macon, Georgia Green Mountain College, Poultney, commencement Northeast Organic Farmers Association, Hampshire College, Massachusetts The Nature Conservancy of Vermont, annual conference, Manchester Eco-Justice Conference, National Council of Churches, New Orleans Auburn University, Alabama Old-Growth Conference, Thomasville Cultural Center, Georgia Cal Poly Institute, San Luis Obispo, California University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, conference honouring John Knott Paideia School, Atlanta, event for The Nature Conservancy of Georgia Annual Assembly of Mid-South District, Unitarian Universalist Church, Atlanta Mississippi State University Landscape Design Week, Starkville Catherine Dianich Art Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont South Georgia College, Douglas Georgia Organics Conference, Mansfield Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, Vermont |
2005
Southeastern Council of Foundations, Marco Island, Florida “Action In Place” Conference, Goddard College, Vermont Georgia Native Plant Society Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia DeKalb Public Library, Decatur, Georgia Spartanbury Day School, South Carolina Darlington School, Rome, Georgia Hendersonville Public Library, North Carolina Keep Georgia Beautiful Conference, Calloway Gardens, Georgia Waycross Public Library, Georgia Longleaf Celebration, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC Department of Humanities, UGA, Athens, Georgia Educators of Landscape Architecture Conference, Athens, Georgia Department ofBarnes & Noble, Athens, Georgia Dalton State College, Dalton, Georgia Address to District Teachers, Springfield, Vermont Jekyll Books, Jekyll Island, Georgia 8th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment, Jekyll Island, Georgia Book Expo America, New York City Environmental Writing Institute Public Reading, Missoula, Montana Everyone’s Books, Brattleboro, Vermont Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, New Hampshire, Commencement Address Westmoreland Public Library, Westmoreland, New Hampshire University of Richmond, Dept. of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Virginia The Putney School, Putney, Vermont Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont “Where the Mountain Stands Alone” Peterborough, New Hampshire Keene Public Library, Keene, New Hampshire Carpe Librum Booksellers, Knoxville, Tennessee Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Jekyll Presbyterian Church, Winter Seminar, Jekyll Island Long County Library, Ludowici, Georgia University of North Florida, lecture series, Jacksonville Brooker Creek Environmental Education Center, Tarpon Springs, Florida One Community, One Book, Citrus County, Beverly Hills and Lecanto, Florida Literary Society of Northern Trust, Ft. Myers, Florida 2004 Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire Book Lovers Ball, Milkweed Editions Benefit, Minneapolis “Between Two Rivers” book festival, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont Environmental Leadership Program, Fellowship Retreat, Highlands, North Carolina Reidsville Learning Center, Reidsville Book Club, Georgia “Where We Stand” panel discussion, Carter Center, Atlanta Newton County Public Library, Covington, Georgia Book Haven Coffeehouse, Tifton, Georgia Lake Blackshear Regional Library, Americus, Georgia Sumter County Public Library, Cordele, Georgia Georgia Heritage Center for the Arts, author luncheon, Clarkesville Main Street Books, Clayton, Georgia Lillian E. Smith Center for the Creative Arts, Clayton, Georgia “Where We Stand” press conference, Washington, DC Greater Yellowstone Coalition, keynote address, West Yellowstone Mississippi High School Literary Workshop, Jackson Lee County Library, Tupelo, Mississippi Oxford Conference for the Book, Oxford, Mississippi The Nature Conservancy of Mississippi, Longleaf Pine Benefit, Kiln Thacker Mountain Radio Show, Oxford, Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi 2003 Benefit for Ocmulgee Riverkeeper, Macon, Georgia Universalist Unitarian Church of Oxford, Mississippi Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College Southeastern Booksellers Convention, Jekyll Island, Georgia Benefit for Heart of the Earth, Tallahassee, Florida Georgia College & State University, Convocation, Milledgeville Environmental Society of America (in Savannah, Georgia) Highlands Biological Station, Highlands, North Carolina North Carolina Native Plant Society, Cullowhee, North Carolina DeKalb Public Library, Atlanta Charlton County Public Library, Folkston, Georgia Georgia Press Association, Panama City, Florida McRae Public Library, McRae, Georgia Flannery O’Conner House, Savannah, Georgia Wayne County Public Library, Jesup, Georgia Chicago Book Fair Association for Study of Literature & Environment (Boston) Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta, Georgia Thomas County Public Library, Thomasville Benefit for Altamaha Riverkeeper, Darien, Georgia Florida Native Plant Society, Ft. Myers, Florida Appling County Public Library, Baxley, Georgia Sitka Public Library, Sitka, Alaska Benefit for Women’s Shelter, Sitka, Alaska New Jersey Conservation Foundation Annual Conference Roots in Georgia Literary Festival, Athens “A Novel Affair,” DeKalb Public Library, Atlanta Augusta Friends of the Library East Georgia College, Swainsboro Milledgeville Friends of the Library, Georgia Athens Academy, Georgia Sandersville Public Library, Sandersville, Georgia North Georgia College, Dahlonega, Georgia 2002 Atlanta Botanical Garden Georgia Perimeter College, Decatur Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library Birdsong Nature Center, Thomasville University of West Georgia & Neva Lomason Library, Carrollton Bartow County Library, Cartersville St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Garden Clubs of America Conservation Committee Meeting (in Savannah, Georgia) Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton Metaphors of Restoration Public Reading, Corvallis, Oregon Thomas County Public Library, Thomasville Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon Severson Dells Nature Center, Rockford, Illinois Chatham County Public Library, Savannah Bainbridge Public Library, Georgia Norteast Alabama Community College, Rainsville Southern Nature Writers Festival, Athens Chatham College, Pittsburgh DeKalb Public Library, Decatur University of Mississippi, Oxford Georgia Science Teachers Association, Jekyll 2001 Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina Brown College, Charlottesville, Virginia Cornelia-Clarkesville Public Library, Georgia University of Vermont, Burlington Bowdoin College, Maine Society for Ecological Restoration (Southern Region), Savannah, Georgia The Georgia Conservancy, Jekyll Island Lee County Library, Leesburg, Georgia Ichauway Plantation, Jones Ecological Research Station, Dawson, Georgia Environmental Education of Georgia, Columbus Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland “Journeys Home: People, Nature & Sense of Place” Chestertown, Maryland Wildflower Symposium, Garden Clubs of Georgia, Tifton University of Montana “Poetics of Wilderness” Lecture Series, Missoula Chattanooga Conference for Southern Literature, Tennessee Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Okefenokee Regional Library, Waycross, Georgia Association for the Study of Literature & the Environment, Flagstaff, Arizona 2000 Southern Historical Association Conference, Louisville, Kentucky Longleaf Alliance Conference, Alexandria, Louisiana Southern Festival for the Book, Nashville, Tennessee St. Petersburg Community College, St. Pete, Florida Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia Coastal Georgia Land Trust, Savannah, Georgia Orion Society’s Forgotten Language Tour, Sanibel Island, Florida Lovett School, Atlanta, Georgia Georgia Southwestern University, Americus, Georgia Valle Crucis Writers Workshop, Valle Crucis, North Carolina Commencement Address, Warren Wilson College, North Carolina Oxford, Miss. Conference for the Book Berry College, Rome, Georgia University of Georgia Institute of Ecology, Athens, Georgia Rollins College, Orlando, Florida Radford University, Radford, Virginia Headwaters Festival, Spartanburg, South Carolina 1999 Forgotten Language Tour, The Orion Society, New England National Watchable Wildlife Conference, Fort Myers, Florida Celebration for Publication of Wild Heart of Florida, a book about wild lands, Florida Capitol Kansas Honors Regents Academy Forgotten Language Tour, The Orion Society, Houston, Texas *List does not include bookstore or class visits. |
Fees
Events that require long-distance travel with at least one overnight stay $3,500 plus expenses
Events within Georgia that require an overnight stay $1,500 plus expenses
Events within a 100-mile range that do not require an overnight stay $500 plus expenses
All fees are negotiable and depend on length of travel, amount of time away, host group, and group's budget.
Events within Georgia that require an overnight stay $1,500 plus expenses
Events within a 100-mile range that do not require an overnight stay $500 plus expenses
All fees are negotiable and depend on length of travel, amount of time away, host group, and group's budget.
