![]() ![]() Her second book, The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest (Henry Holt & Co, 1999) examined the long-term and often devastating environmental and human consequences of nuclear testing on the New Mexico landscape. ![]() ![]() Her first, Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River (Henry Holt & Co, 1994), details her experiences traveling Green River through Utah, Colorado and Wyoming with her husband, who patrolled the river for the U.S. Meloy published three collections of essays during her lifetime that married her love of the land with her interest in travel. Meloy’s work explored what she saw as the paradox of the American west in which “he most serene places in the Southwest are also the most egregious places in American human history,” as she told the Albuquerque Journal in 1999. Throughout her career, Meloy specialized in what she termed “land-based literature,” using the American southwest as the setting and subject of her highly regarded essays. Meloy moved to Utah with her husband, Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1989. Meloy attended Goucher College in Maryland with a degree in Art, before earning her MA in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana in Missoula. Ellen Meloy, one of Utah’s most well-known and beloved nonfiction writers, was born Jin Pasadena, CA. ![]()
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