The Good Southern Women Interview with Janisse Ray

On the power of idiom, wearing cleats, and removing the word "Southern"

GSW is a questionnaire-based interview series featured in F I E L D T R I P. It focuses on women-identifying artists of the South. This time, we feature writer Janisse Ray.

Janisse Ray hails from south Georgia, where she lives today on a small farm with her partner, Raven, and horses, chickens, and a mule named Tecumseh. She is a prolific writer, dedica…