Melissa Matthewson

Writer, Southwestern Oregon

Mellissa Matthewson is a writer based in southwestern Oregon. Her work has been published in Literary Hub, Mid-American Review and Guernica, among others. She is the author of Tracing the Desire Line (2019).

Written by Melissa Matthewson

Photo of a rocky path winding through a grassy landscape with cloudy skies and distant hills in the background.

Nan Shepherd delved into a queer erotic kinship with nature

In the Highlands, Nan Shepherd found an erotic kinship with nature: ‘The Living Mountain’ a core text for queer ecology

by Melissa Matthewson