Pryor, Melanie
Suffolk University
United States
Melanie Pryor is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University, Boston, and holds a PhD in creative writing from Flinders University, South Australia. Her research on eco-autobiography is published in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and her personal essays in Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, and Lip Magazine. She writes about the body, place, wild landscapes, and women’s nature memoirs.
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ArticlesIntroductionWhen she divorced, Cheryl Strayed chose for herself an entirely new surname. In Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, the memoir she wrote and published in 2012 about hiking 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) from the Mojave Desert to the...Read more