Melissa Sevigny
@melissasevigny.bsky.social
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
New in @terrainorg.bsky.social, a conversation about western rivers by three writers who know what it's like to raft, explore, study, and love them. @rosemcmackin.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
Water Shapes Everything: A Conversation on Western Rivers - Terrain.org
Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New in @terrainorg.bsky.social, a conversation about western rivers by three writers who know what it's like to raft, explore, study, and love them. @rosemcmackin.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
Pumpkin display update.
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Pumpkin display update.
So...got to the plant store right when they were hauling all the pumpkins to be composted. This happened.
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
So...got to the plant store right when they were hauling all the pumpkins to be composted. This happened.
Escalating conflict between Gandalf and the Vine for the sunniest spot in the house.
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Escalating conflict between Gandalf and the Vine for the sunniest spot in the house.
My laptop is melting down, but I'm afraid to buy a new one because it will probably be chock-full of AI systems that I do not want and cannot remove. Advice? Open to a desktop, too.
October 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My laptop is melting down, but I'm afraid to buy a new one because it will probably be chock-full of AI systems that I do not want and cannot remove. Advice? Open to a desktop, too.
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold (Robert Frost)
October 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold (Robert Frost)
Replying to snail mail fan letters today... International ones no less, from Canada and the UK. These are the moments that make writing a book SO lovely. 🥰
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Replying to snail mail fan letters today... International ones no less, from Canada and the UK. These are the moments that make writing a book SO lovely. 🥰
Carrot harvest time!
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Carrot harvest time!
Loved this excerpt of Gary Ferguson's THE TWILIGHT FOREST in @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Ponderosas offer, he writes, "a feeling of being sheltered—a sense that even when the world is dark there are places you can go to feel some measure of belonging." orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
Twilight Trees - Orion Magazine
An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west
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October 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Loved this excerpt of Gary Ferguson's THE TWILIGHT FOREST in @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Ponderosas offer, he writes, "a feeling of being sheltered—a sense that even when the world is dark there are places you can go to feel some measure of belonging." orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
Official photos from the Murrow Awards last Monday! Fun to discover a stealth photo of me by the paparazzi. 📷 credit BP Miller, who is on Insta under @bpmiller_official
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Official photos from the Murrow Awards last Monday! Fun to discover a stealth photo of me by the paparazzi. 📷 credit BP Miller, who is on Insta under @bpmiller_official
Celebrating national Murrow Award with my editor @ryanheinsius.bsky.social in NYC!
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Celebrating national Murrow Award with my editor @ryanheinsius.bsky.social in NYC!
Photos from yesterday's unveiling of an Indigenous (Navajo/Hopi) mural at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Beautiful artwork by Nanibah Chacon and Gerald Dawavendewa celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing the night sky. 🧪🔭
October 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Photos from yesterday's unveiling of an Indigenous (Navajo/Hopi) mural at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Beautiful artwork by Nanibah Chacon and Gerald Dawavendewa celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing the night sky. 🧪🔭
Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.
Thank you, @melissasevigny.bsky.social, for introducing me to Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter. As you noted, their story matters, for so many reasons.
My wife and I both devoured BRAVE THE WILD RIVER, and have recommended it to our daughter, an environmental science major.
My wife and I both devoured BRAVE THE WILD RIVER, and have recommended it to our daughter, an environmental science major.
September 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.
TONIGHT! Come join me! #WomeninSTEM
For those of you in Flagstaff, I'm really excited about this #womeninstem event a week from today -- which will include a portion of my book adapted into a play (!) by the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival. I mean, how cool is that?!? 👩🔬 It's free! It's #science and #art! Come join us!
September 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
TONIGHT! Come join me! #WomeninSTEM
Check out this beautiful interview in @terrainorg.bsky.social with #author Elspeth Hay about #farming, #food, and the future: "we need a new economic system to regenerate life instead of gambling with it." www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
There Is No Line: An Interview with Elspeth Hay - Terrain.org
There Is No Line: Cara Benson interviews Elspeth Hay, author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Check out this beautiful interview in @terrainorg.bsky.social with #author Elspeth Hay about #farming, #food, and the future: "we need a new economic system to regenerate life instead of gambling with it." www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
For those of you in Flagstaff, I'm really excited about this #womeninstem event a week from today -- which will include a portion of my book adapted into a play (!) by the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival. I mean, how cool is that?!? 👩🔬 It's free! It's #science and #art! Come join us!
September 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
For those of you in Flagstaff, I'm really excited about this #womeninstem event a week from today -- which will include a portion of my book adapted into a play (!) by the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival. I mean, how cool is that?!? 👩🔬 It's free! It's #science and #art! Come join us!
Gandalf and the Vine in a moment if harmony.
September 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Gandalf and the Vine in a moment if harmony.
Hello, canyon. I've missed you!
September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hello, canyon. I've missed you!
In other exciting news: the blackberries are ripe!
September 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In other exciting news: the blackberries are ripe!
My review of Rob Dunn's new book THE CALL OF THE HONEYGUIDE, which explores relationships known as "mutualisms" between human and nonhuman species - from cats to yeasts to birds to whales. It joins a growing literature that focuses on nature's cooperative side. 🌎💙📚🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Birds Who Help Humans, and Other Tales of Inter-Species Cooperation
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September 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My review of Rob Dunn's new book THE CALL OF THE HONEYGUIDE, which explores relationships known as "mutualisms" between human and nonhuman species - from cats to yeasts to birds to whales. It joins a growing literature that focuses on nature's cooperative side. 🌎💙📚🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Thanks for sharing! My publisher is running an e-book promotion right now, so you can get it for $2.99 (or apparently a bit less!) anywhere you normally buy books. 💙📚👩🔬Happy reading!
Looks like @melissasevigny.bsky.social 's "Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon" is on sale for a mere $2.69 on Kobo today.
I'm grabbing mine.
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I'm grabbing mine.
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon ebook by Melissa L. Sevigny - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon" by Melissa L. Sevigny available from Rakuten Kobo. **Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for ...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Thanks for sharing! My publisher is running an e-book promotion right now, so you can get it for $2.99 (or apparently a bit less!) anywhere you normally buy books. 💙📚👩🔬Happy reading!
Taking a pause from social media for a while. Here's a zen moment at a beaver dam in the meanwhile.
July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Taking a pause from social media for a while. Here's a zen moment at a beaver dam in the meanwhile.
For your weekend reading, this beautiful interview with artist and chef Anne Flash about the shift in her work from pastoral beachscapes into what she calls "full tilt into the storm and imbalance." 🌎 #art #climatechange @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
The Primacy of Water: An Interview with Anne Flash - Terrain.org
The Primacy of Water: Jim Ross interviews Cape Cod acclaimed artist and chef Anne Flash.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
For your weekend reading, this beautiful interview with artist and chef Anne Flash about the shift in her work from pastoral beachscapes into what she calls "full tilt into the storm and imbalance." 🌎 #art #climatechange @terrainorg.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
Attempting to show what a beautiful job Arizona Highways did on the layout of my article about Florence Merriam Bailey, but the cat has other ideas.
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Attempting to show what a beautiful job Arizona Highways did on the layout of my article about Florence Merriam Bailey, but the cat has other ideas.