Ellen Meloy
Ellen Meloy | |
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| Born | June 21, 1946 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 4, 2004 (aged 58)[1] Bluff, Utah, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Goucher College (BFA) University of Montana (MA) |
| Occupation | Environmental Writer |
| Relatives | Colin Meloy (nephew) Maile Meloy (niece) |
Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946, Pasadena, California – November 4, 2004, Bluff, Utah[1]) was an American nature writer.
Life
She was born Ellen Louise Ditzler in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Goucher College with a degree in art, and from the University of Montana with a master's degree in environmental studies.[2] She married her husband Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1985.[3] Her nephew is the musician and writer Colin Meloy and her niece is the writer Maile Meloy.
A prize bearing Meloy's name is presented annually by The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers.[4]
Awards
- 1997 Whiting Award
- 2003 Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit (2003)
- 2007 John Burroughs Medal Award [5]
Selected works
- "GROUND ZERO", Salon, February, 24, 1999 Archived 2010-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Meloy, Ellen (1994). Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River. H. Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-2497-5.
- —— (2001). The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2153-1.
- —— (2002). The anthropology of turquoise: meditations on landscape, art, and spirit. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-40885-4.
- —— (2005). Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-42216-4.
- Hunter, Christopher J. (1991). Tom Palmer (ed.). Better trout habitat: a guide to stream restoration and management. Illustrated by ––. Island Press. ISBN 978-0-933280-77-9.
Ellen Meloy.
- —— (2004). Foreword. Sandstone seduction: rivers and lovers, canyons and friends. By Lee, Katie. Big Earth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55566-338-4.
Anthologies
- Bill McKibben, ed. (2008). American Earth: environmental writing since Thoreau. Literary Classics of the United States. ISBN 978-1-59853-020-9.
- —— (2007). "Think not of a Tectonic Plate but of a Sumptuous Feast". In Susan Wittig Albert; Susan Hanson (eds.). What wildness is this: women write about the Southwest. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71630-8.
- William Kittredge; John Smart, eds. (1988). Montana spaces: essays and photographs in celebration of Montana. Photography by John Smart. Nick Lyons Books. ISBN 978-1-55821-000-4.
- American Nature Writing: 2000, the volume was devoted to emerging women writers and was edited by John A. Murray, published by Oregon State University Press: Corvallis.
References
- ^ a b Klinkenborg, Verlyn (November 11, 2004). "APPRECIATIONS: Ellen Meloy". The New York Times.
- ^ "Of Note: Ellen Meloy Author". The Washington Post. November 13, 2004. p. B06.
- ^ "Remembering Ellen Meloy", High Desert Journal, April 2005, Elizabeth Grossman Archived 2009-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Desert Writers Award". Poets & Writers. 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ "Newsletter" (PDF). research.amnh.org.
External links
- Ellen Meloy Official website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- "Ellen Meloy's Deep Nomadology", rhizomes.13 Dianne Chisholm, fall 2006
- "The Art of Ecological Thinking: Literary Ecology", "ISLE 18.3" Dianne Chisholm, fall 2011
- Chisholm, Dianne. “Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire.” In Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, and Desire. Eds. Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson. Indiana University Press. 359–81.