Charles RayCharles 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 fr 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 AndleRay Studios. Read More Read Less