Ellen Meloy
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.[1] She married her husband Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1985.[2] Her nephew is the musician and writer Colin Meloy and her niece is the writer Maile Meloy
An award has been named for her,[3] and the fourth recipient is Amy Irvine.[4]
Quotes
…in the desert there is everything and there is nothing. Stay curious. Know where you are—your biological address. Get to know your neighbors—plants, creatures, who lives there, who died there, who is blessed, cursed, what is absent or in danger or in need of your help. Pay attention to the weather, to what breaks your heart, to what lifts your heart. Write it down.
~E.M. November 2004
On the Colorado Plateau, with its considerable share of wildlands, a natural world more or less intact, the most exotic terrain may be the plateau's own history. During my recent journeys this history felt foreign and unnervingly off-the-Map, even as I lived in its heart. Gaze out from the mesa, and you will meet my duplicitous lover. You will see eternity, a desert that like no other place exudes the timelessness of nature as the final arbiter. Scrape off our century, and you will find its usurper, pressed into a nugget of inorganic matter, the single greatest threat to the continuity of life. The history inscribed itself on the Map's most alarming folios; ignoring it was no way to earn Home.
—Ellen Meloy, The Last Cheater's Waltz
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]
Works
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Anthologies
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References
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- ↑ "Remembering Ellen Meloy", High Desert Journal, April 2005, Elizabeth Grossman
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/desert_writers_award
- ↑ http://wilderness.motleyvision.org/2009/amy-irvine-mcharg-wins-ellen-meloy-fund-for-desert-writers/
- ↑ http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/wakerobin_pdfs/WR-39-3-spring_07-4.pdf
External links
- Ellen Meloy Official website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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- "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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