In this episode of Bookmark with Don Noble, Don Noble speaks with Janisse Ray in Carmichael Library on the campus of the University of Montevallo. Their conversation explores Ray's life and work, her deep connection to the rural South, and the ways personal history, ecology, and activism come together in her writing. Ray's acclaimed memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood helped establish her as a major voice in environmental literature, weaving her childhood in rural Georgia with a call to preserve the endangered longleaf pine ecosystem. Her work has been widely taught and anthologized and has received honors including an American Book Award, a Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and a Southern Booksellers Award. Bookmark with Don Noble features conversations with writers whose work has shaped Alabama, the South, and American literature.