Ellen Meloy Explained
Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946, Pasadena, California - November 4, 2004, Bluff, Utah) 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.[1] She married her husband Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1985.[2] 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.[3]
Awards
- 1997 Whiting Award
- 2003 Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit (2003)
- 2007 John Burroughs Medal Award [4]
Selected works
- "GROUND ZERO", Salon, February, 24, 1999
- Book: Meloy, Ellen . Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River . H. Holt . 1994 . 978-0-8050-2497-5 .
- Book: Meloy, Ellen . 2 . The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest . University of Arizona Press . 2001 . 978-0-8165-2153-1.
- Book: Meloy, Ellen . 2 . The anthropology of turquoise: meditations on landscape, art, and spirit . Pantheon Books . 2002 . 978-0-375-40885-4 .
- Book: Meloy, Ellen . 2 . Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild . Pantheon Books . 2005 . 978-0-375-42216-4 .
- Book: Hunter, Christopher J. . Better trout habitat: a guide to stream restoration and management . registration . Ellen Meloy. . Illustrated by –– . Tom Palmer . Island Press . 1991 . 978-0-933280-77-9.
- Book: Lee, Katie . Meloy . Ellen . 2 . Sandstone seduction: rivers and lovers, canyons and friends . Foreword . Big Earth Publishing . 2004 . 978-1-55566-338-4.
Anthologies
- Book: American Earth: environmental writing since Thoreau . Bill McKibben . Literary Classics of the United States . 2008 . 978-1-59853-020-9 .
- Book: Meloy, Ellen . 2 . Think not of a Tectonic Plate but of a Sumptuous Feast . What wildness is this: women write about the Southwest . Susan Wittig Albert . Susan Hanson . University of Texas Press . 2007 . 978-0-292-71630-8.
- Book: Montana spaces: essays and photographs in celebration of Montana . William Kittredge . John Smart . Photography by John Smart . Nick Lyons Books . 1988 . 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.
External links
- Ellen Meloy Official website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- News: APPRECIATIONS: Ellen Meloy. VERLYN KLINKENBORG. November 11, 2004. The New York Times.
- "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.
Notes and References
- News: Of Note: Ellen Meloy Author. November 13, 2004. B06. The Washington Post.
- http://www.ellenmeloy.com/tributes_highdesertjournal.htm "Remembering Ellen Meloy", High Desert Journal, April 2005, Elizabeth Grossman
- Web site: Desert Writers Award. 2019-09-27. Poets & Writers. en. 2019-11-04.
- Web site: Newsletter. research.amnh.org.