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.
She married her husband Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1985.
[ "Remembering Ellen Meloy", High Desert Journal, April 2005, Elizabeth Grossman ] 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.
Awards
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1997 Whiting Awards
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2003 Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit (2003)
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2007 John Burroughs Medal Award
Selected works
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.
External links
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Ellen Meloy Official website
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Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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"Ellen Meloy's Deep Nomadology", rhizomes.13 Dianne Chisholm, fall 2006
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"The Art of Ecological Thinking: Literary Ecology", "ISLE 18.3" Dianne Chisholm, fall 2011
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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.
