Ellen Meloy

Ellen Meloy was a celebrated nature writer. She earned a pulitzer prize nomination for her work, The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit. She authored three additional books and numerous radio essays. The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers, which grants a $5,000 award for creative nonfiction writers, was created in her honor.

She graduated from Goucher College with a degree in art, and from the University of Montana with a master’s degree in environmental studies. Ellen died in 2004.