Michael Branch

Michael Branch is University Foundation Professor and Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he regularly teaches Ellen Meloy’s work in courses on environmental writing, western American literature, literary nonfiction, and the literature of humor. As a humor writer and a writer of western, place-based creative nonfiction, Mike has long counted Ellen Meloy among his literary heroes. Ellen’s combination of intelligence, attentiveness, humor, and lyrical prose makes her work unique. Mike received the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award in 2017.