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Bighorn sheep sculpture dedicated to Ellen Meloy is given warm welcome in Bluff (2012).

TRIBUTES

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  • Remembering Ellen Meloy, by Elizabeth Grossman in High Desert Journal, April 2005.
  • IN MEMORIAM - ELLEN MELOY - 1946-2004, by Phil Condon, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, University of Montana.
  • Mourning the Loss of a Nature Writer, by Dennis Lythgoe
  • Tribute by Four Corners Free Press, by Suzanne Strazza, December 2004
  • Places to look for Ellen, a poem by Ann Weiler Walka
  • For Ellen, a poem by Terry Tempest Williams
  • For Ellen, My Sandstone Sister, a poem by Katie Lee
  • Urban Listeners: An Interview with Verlyn Klinkenborg "There are a lot of people working, particularly in the West, who are doing some wonderful writing about rural living," he says. "I think particularly of a woman named Ellen Meloy who is a wonderful writer about the subtleties of living in red rock Utah. It's a very hard thing to represent." Excerpt from "Rural Stories, 

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All photos courtesy Mark Meloy. Copyright 2005-2012 © Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers