Janisse Ray believes in the power of stories to transform--a single person, a community, or a nation--and leads writing workshops to show you how to do it. In her own work she explores borderlands and edges between nature and story. Ray has written or edited over a dozen books, beginning with Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and has been published in more than 40 anthologies. Her books have been translated into French, Turkish, and Italian. She has received a Pushcart, American Book Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Award, among many others, and has been inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. ​She loves dark chocolate, the blues, and any kind of wildflower. She lives on a rural farm inland from Savannah, Georgia.