Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946,

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– November 4, 2004,

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) was an American nature writer.

Life

She was born Ellen Louise Ditzler in Pasadena, California. She graduated from

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1885 as a Nonsectarian, nonsecterian Women's colleges in the United States, ...

with a degree in art, and from the

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana, United States. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. Fall 2024 saw total enrollment hit 10,811, marki ...

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 acousti ...

and her niece is the writer

Maile Meloy Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American novelist and short story 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 ...

. A prize bearing Meloy's name is presented annually by The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers.

Awards

* 1997

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

* 2003

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

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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Anthologies

* * * *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
*[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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Meloy, Ellen 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 American women non-fiction writers American nature writers