Melissa Sevigny

Two Navajo dancers in traditional dress address an unseen crowd beneath projections of Indigenous artwork.

A vertical mural fills a space alongside a staircase, showing Navajo constellations and Hopi symbols.

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.

I'm so glad you enjoyed my book! Thanks so much for suggesting it to your daughter, that makes all the difference to authors.

TONIGHT! Come join me! #WomeninSTEM

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.

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...

A flyer advertising Women in Science Night on Thursday Sept 25 at the Coconino Center for the Arts. Free. 5:30 networking, 7:30 staged reading of Brave the Wild River.

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!

A small gray cat sits on a windowsill surrounded by ivy vines in the sunlight.

Gandalf and the Vine in a moment if harmony.

First year I've gotten so many!

A view of the grand canyon from the south rim under a blue sky.

Hello, canyon. I've missed you!

Usually, but not this year because it's been so dry. Just barely started getting the summer rains.

Right off the vine!

A cluster of blackberries hanging from a vine, some black, some red.

In other exciting news: the blackberries are ripe!

Birds Who Help Humans, and Other Tales of Inter-Species Cooperation

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...

Oh yes. Run away! Or at least carry some iron and salt.

Were you asked to do any sorting of the gravel pile? Always a warning sign.

Glad you found me! Happy reading.

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!

I recently got to take a fabulous poetry class with Todd Davis. Thanks for being a fan!

There is a nice biography of her, called No Woman Tenderfoot. 😊

A creek surrounded by greenery with pine trees in the distance under a blue sky.

Taking a pause from social media for a while. Here's a zen moment at a beaver dam in the meanwhile.

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.

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...

A magazine lies open on a desk with a small gray cat sitting on top of it looking imploringly at the camera.

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.

I imagine the stone foundation is still there, though I haven't seen pictures yet. It burned once before in the 1930s and the stone foundation was salvaged. I certainly hope we rebuild it.

The Grand Canyon with rosy pink layers under a hazy sunset sky surrounded by conifer trees.

I went looking for a photo of the Grand Canyon Lodge from my last visit, but apparently I didn't take one. Of course it wouldn't have occurred to me I'd never have another chance. This is the picture I snapped from the veranda at sunset. 💔

Thanks Kim! I imagine opera-glasses of the day weren't nearly as good as binoculars now.... she had some mad skills!

Thanks, Morgan!

Standing Perfectly Still | Arizona Highways ON A LATE-SUMMER DAY IN 1929, all manner of visitors came to Bright Angel Lodge, the rustic hotel perched on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. A pair of rangers sat boldly, dangling their cowboy-boot...

I'm thrilled to have my first-ever piece in Arizona's Highway's August issue, about a Grand Canyon ornithologist...🪶👩‍🔬🌎🧪 though the timing is bittersweet, given the ongoing tragedy of the North Rim fires. www.arizonahighways.com/article/stan...

A hummingbird sitting on the tip of a metal crook in a green garden. He has an orange throat and pale breast.

An orange hummingbird in flight near a feeder.

This fellow has been staking out my feeder all week. Rufous, I think? Why does he look totally different in flight v. standing still? (Yard Bird #33!) 🪶

Thank you! Been terrified to update my very old computer ...