Janisse Ray lives in Baxley, Georgia and graduated with an MFA from the University of Montana. Her poetry has appeared in several journals, as well as the regional anthology, North of Wakulla, and Polyphony: An Anthology of Florida Poets. An endangered species activist and a proponent of old growth forests, Ray has published essays in Orion, Florida Wildlife and Georgia Wildlife Magazine. She won Camas’ 1996 nature writing award and the 1996 Writers Conference Award in Non-Fiction. Her autobiographical memoir, Georgia Cracker, was published by Milkweed Press in 1999.
Janice Moore Fuller Emöke Z. B’Racz Thomas P. Feeny Ron Rash Quincy Troupe Hungarian Jonathan Greene Review William Matthews Emmanuel Moses Jeffery Beam Luke Hankins J. W. Bonner Ryan G. Van Cleave Keith Flynn Thomas Rain Crowe Marilyn Hacker Stella Vinitchi Radulescu Newton Smith Lyn Lifshin Jack Hirschman Rene Char Bill Knott Robert Bly Simon Perchik Al Maginnes Gearóid Mac Lochlainn Welsh Patrick Bizzaro Russian Robert Creeley Gaylord Brewer Marilyn Kallet Sally Buckner Kathryn Stripling Byer R. T. Smith Michael Harper Essay Spanish Dede Wilson Eugenio Montale Jonathan Williams Lee Ann Brown Phebe Davidson Patricia Smith