Charles Ray’s poems and novels often reflect his Scotch-Irish and Cherokee heritage, his use of both the past and the contemporary, and his deep respect ad personal connectedness to the natural. He has been reluctantly employed as a college professor, high school
teacher, farmhand, sawmill worker, and construction laborer. He graduated from Brevard College, Western Carolina University, and Appalachian State University. He holds the doctor of arts degree in English from Middle Tennessee State University.
About the author
Charles Ray has published numerous poems and short stories. His two highly original novels are the Tarheel Connection: An Environmental Romance and Lance: A Child’s Garden of Evil. Ray raises black and tan tree hounds, two of them serving as models for the hounds in the Tarheel Connection. Little Oak lives in the Ouachita Mountains near Belleville, Arkansas, and is enrolled in the Ouachita Cherokee of Cherokee Nation West.Photograph of the author with Boone; Courtesy of Andle Ray Studios.
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