G Davies Jandrey

G. Davies Jandrey, whose friends call her Gayle, is a retired educator, a writer of fiction and a poet. For five seasons she worked as a fire lookout in Saguaro National Park and Chiricahua National Monument. It was in these "sky islands" that she first learned to love the richness and diversity of southern Arizona. This double life, one spent teaching teens, the other focused on natural history, informs both her poetry and prose. She makes her home with her husband, Fritz, in the Tucson...See more

G. Davies Jandrey, whose friends call her Gayle, is a retired educator, a writer of fiction and a poet. For five seasons she worked as a fire lookout in Saguaro National Park and Chiricahua National Monument. It was in these "sky islands" that she first learned to love the richness and diversity of southern Arizona. This double life, one spent teaching teens, the other focused on natural history, informs both her poetry and prose. She makes her home with her husband, Fritz, in the Tucson Mountains. See less