Melissa Sevigny
Science journalist in Flagstaff, Arizona. Author of Brave the Wild River (WW Norton, 2023), Mythical River, and Under Desert Skies. I write about science, nature, rivers, space. Trekkie! www.melissasevigny.com
Nature Offers Us a Counterpoint: An Interview with Priyanka Kumarwww.terrain.org Birds had magically and mysteriously imbued my life with rasa. Birds essentially became my community. Introduction hen the universe gives us a bird,” writes Priyanka Kumar, “we should accept it with...
The SciFri Book Club, from Science Fridaywww.sciencefriday.com A monthly book club to bring people together around all things science reading, from the people who bring you Science Friday
Read 'Brave the Wild River' With The SciFri Book Clubwww.sciencefriday.com Set off down the Colorado River with Melissa L. Sevigny's book, which tells two women's journey to document the canyon's unique botany.
Reading the West 34th Annual Awards Presentationwww.youtube.com Independent bookseller across the American West present the awards for the 34th annual Reading the West Book Awards
Weeding the Grand Canyonwww.npca.org The search for an invasive plant, ghosts of the past and belonging on a journey downriver.
How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botanylithub.com Botany has a long history of not holding space for women, and even pushing them out when it becomes expedient to do so. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, women were very mu…
Author Spotlight: Float Cataract Canyon with Melissa Sevignywww.bikeraft.com Join acclaimed author Melissa Sevigny and Holiday for this special river trip down the Green River and through Cataract Canyon!