Writer, naturalist and activist Janisse Ray will be the featured speaker at the Georgia Writers Museum’s next “Meet the Author” event Sunday, Aug. 12 from 2 to 4 p.m. 

Ray is the author of five books of literary nonfiction and a collection of eco-poetry. Her first book, “Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,” a memoir about growing up in a junkyard in Southeast Georgia, won the Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction in 1999, an American Book Award in 2000, a Southern Environmental Law Center Award in 2000 for Outstanding Writing, and Southern Book Critics Circle Award in 2000. It was a New York Times Notable Book and was chosen as a Book All Georgians Should Read. In 2015, Ray was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, which is an affiliate of the Georgia Writers Museum. 

Ray’s latest 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 the 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 a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at universities and colleges across the country. She lectures nationally on nature, community, agriculture, seeds, wildness, sustainability, writing, and the politics of wholeness. At home on a farm in southern Georgia, Ray is an organic gardener, tender of farm animals, slow-food cook, and seed-saver. She is active in her local community.

Refreshments will be served at the event featuring organic hors d’oeuvres.

Tickets for the event are $20 and may be purchased online at www.georgiawritersmuseum.com.

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