Ellen Meloy
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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 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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Anthologies
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- 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
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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.
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