Melissa L. Sevigny's guest appearances

Melissa L. Sevigny

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Writing Westward Podcast

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Creative projects have a habit of taking on their own lives and bringing the creator along for the ride. In this episode, we speak with science writer Melissa L. Sevigny about how her book Brave the Wild River: The untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon surprised her and required her to tell a story different from the one she set out to write. She also shares how she managed to work a full-time job while researching and writing, how she created three-dimensional characters out of archival information and interviews, how the book let her know she was done, and what she learned from this project to apply to future projects.   Melissa L. Sevigny grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where she fell in love with the Sonoran Desert’s ecology and dark desert skies. She has worked as a science communicator in the fields of space exploration, water policy, and sustainable agriculture, and has a B.S. in environmental science from the University of Arizona and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Iowa State University.She is the science reporter at KNAU (Arizona Public Radio) in Flagstaff, Arizona and her stories have been awarded regional Edward R. Murrow awards and featured nationally on Science Friday. In addition to Brave the Wild River, she’s also written Mythical River and Under Desert Skies.Learn more about her at www.melissasevigny.com or follow her on Twitter @melissasevigny. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

Creative projects have a habit of taking on their own lives and bringing the creator along for the ride. In this episode, we speak with science writer Melissa L. Sevigny about how her book Brave the Wild River: The untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon surprised her and required her to tell a story different from the one she set out to write. She also shares how she managed to work a full-time job while researching and writing, how she created three-dimensional characters out of archival information and interviews, how the book let her know she was done, and what she learned from this project to apply to future projects.   <a href="https://melissasevigny.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Melissa L. Sevigny</a> grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where she fell in love with the Sonoran Desert’s ecology and dark desert skies. She has worked as a science communicator in the fields of space exploration, water policy, and sustainable agriculture, and has a B.S. in environmental science from the University of Arizona and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Iowa State University.She is the science reporter at KNAU (Arizona Public Radio) in Flagstaff, Arizona and her stories have been awarded regional Edward R. Murrow awards and featured nationally on Science Friday. In addition to Brave the Wild River, she’s also written <a href="https://melissasevigny.com/books/mythical-river/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mythical River</a> and <a href="https://melissasevigny.com/books/under-desert-skies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under Desert Skies</a>.Learn more about her at<a href="http://www.melissasevigny.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.melissasevigny.com</a> or follow her on Twitter @melissasevigny. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://emergingform.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">emergingform.substack.com/subscribe</a>

Episode 93: Melissa L. Sevigny on Allowing the Story to Emerge

"Brave the Wild River" by Melissa L. Sevigny tells the riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. The book is a spellbinding adventure of two women, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.

"Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon" by Melissa L. Sevigny

A conversation with Melissa L. Sevigny about their book "Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon" (W. W. Norton, 2023). The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink (www.bwrensink.org) for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and hosted by. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook or Twitter or get more information @ https://www.writingwestward.org. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ www.micahdahlanderson.com

A conversation with Melissa L. Sevigny about their book "Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon" (W. W. Norton, 2023). The Writing Westward Podcast is produced and hosted by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink (<a href="http://www.bwrensink.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.bwrensink.org</a>) for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and hosted by. Subscribe to the Writing Westward Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast distribution apps and platforms. Follow the BYU Redd Center and the Writing Westward Podcast on Facebook or Twitter or get more information @ <a href="https://www.writingwestward.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.writingwestward.org</a>. Theme music by Micah Dahl Anderson @ <a href="http://www.micahdahlanderson.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.micahdahlanderson.com</a>