An annual cash award of $5,000 provides recognition and a small base of financial support for exceptional writers of the desert who wish to spend creative time ...

Ellen Meloy was an American nature writer. Ellen Meloy. Born, June 21, 1946. Pasadena, California, U.S.. Died, November 4, 2004 (aged 58). Bluff, Utah, U.S..

Ellen Meloy was an American nature writer. Among the awards she garnered are the Whiting Writer's Award (1997) and the John Burroughs Medal (2007); in 2003 ...

All good writing finds voice in place and experience; really good nature writing lives in the field. Ellen Meloy breathed the desert air and wrote. Her voice ...

Apr 10, 2019 · Ellen Meloy was a great writer of enormous wit and wisdom -'Anthropology of Turquoise' a masterpiece. Her sudden, early death very hard to take.

Nov 11, 2004 · Last week, a writer named Ellen Meloy died suddenly in her sleep beside her husband at their home in Bluff, Utah. She was 58.

Mar 8, 2019 · Ellen's sudden and unexpected death in 2004 caught her friends completely off guard. It was as if she slipped around some desert bend laughing, ...

Meloy was an illustrator, river guide, and self-taught writer who also became a frequent contributing essayist to Utah Public Radio. Her work received a Whiting ...

ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West and lived in California, Montana, and Utah. Her book The Anthropology of Turquoise (2002) was a finalist for the ...

The late Ellen Meloy was the award-winning author of such books as Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild and Raven's Exile: A Season on the ...