Sea Grant Awards Dinner & Closing Ceremony
Savannah A/B
Keynote Speaker: Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray is an award-winning American author who has been writing about the natural world for over 30 years. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, is an environmental memoir that tells the story of growing up in the disappearing longleaf pine flatwoods. It was a New York Times Notable and is credited with bringing attention to a critically endangered ecosystem and starting a movement to restore this iconic landscape.
She has won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Booksellers Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Award, and Eisenberg Award, among many others. Her books have been translated into Turkish, French, and Italian.
Ray leads workshops on writing, where she teaches not only writing technique but how to access the mysteries that make writing great. Find out more at her website, janisseray.com or subscribe to her free Substack newsletter, “Trackless Wild.”