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. 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

  • 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

  • 2010-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  • Meloy, Ellen (1994). . 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). . Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-40885-4.
  • —— (2005). . Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-42216-4.
  • Hunter, Christopher J. (1991). Tom Palmer (ed.). . Illustrated by ––. Island Press. ISBN 978-0-933280-77-9. Ellen Meloy.
  • —— (2004). Foreword. . By Lee, Katie. Big Earth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55566-338-4.

Anthologies

  • Bill McKibben, ed. (2008). . 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.

External links

  • 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.