Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946,
Pasadena, California – November 4, 2004,
Bluff, Utah) was an American
nature writer
Nature writing is nonfiction or fiction prose or poetry about the natural environment. Nature writing encompasses a wide variety of works, ranging from those that place primary emphasis on natural history facts (such as field guides) to those in ...
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Life
She was born Ellen Louise Ditzler in Pasadena, California. She graduated from
Goucher College
Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
with a degree in art, and from the
University of Montana
The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fa ...
with a master's degree in environmental studies. She married her husband Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1985. Her nephew is the musician and writer
Colin Meloy
Colin Patrick Henry Meloy (born October 5, 1974) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and author best known as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, indie folk rock band The Decemberists. In addition to vocals, he performs with an acoust ...
and her niece is the writer
Maile Meloy
Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American fiction writer.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvi ...
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Meloy is the namesake of an award, given yearly by The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers.
Awards
* 1997
Whiting Award
* 2003
Pulitzer Prize nomination for ''The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit'' (2003)
* 2007 John Burroughs Medal Award
Selected works
"GROUND ZERO", ''Salon'', February, 24, 1999*
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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
External links
Ellen Meloy Official websiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151228224435/http://isle.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/10/03/isle.isr077.full.pdf+html "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 Sandilands , Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson. Indiana University Press. 359–81.
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1946 births
2004 deaths
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Writers from Utah
John Burroughs Medal recipients
Goucher College alumni
University of Montana alumni