Janisse Ray is the author of three works of nonfiction,Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land,Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home, and the bestsellingEcology of a Cracker Childhood. She is also the author of a poetry collection,A House of Branches, and coeditor ofBetween Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf. She lives in the Altamaha Community in Reidsville, Georgia.