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Janisse Ray is an award-winning writer and political activist whose home is her family farm in south Georgia. Her memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, about growing up on a junkyard amid the vanishing longleaf pine forests of the South, was selected for All Georgia Reading the Same Book 2002. She has published in such magazines as Body and Soul, Hope, Oprah, Natural History, and Sierra. Her latest book, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home was released by Milkweed Editions in May 2003. She was the John and Renee Grisham writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi in 2003–2004.Laura Newton is the author of 'Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf' with ISBN 9780975933909 and ISBN 0975933906.
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