Background
Melinda Elliott was born on November 6, 1947, in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. She is the daughter of Richard H., an attorney, and Maxine (Yeatmau) Elliott, a homemaker.
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The School of American Research, a History, the First Eighty Years
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0014ZDICC/?tag=2022091-20
1987
Melinda Elliott
Edit Profilejournalist massage therapist writer
Education
Elliott attended Occidental College with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969. She finished Stanford University with Master of Arts degree in 1977 with license in massage therapy.
In addition, she spent two semesters at the American Graduate School of International Management.
Career
Elliott began her writing career early. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, her first job was in the publications department of an anthropological center called the School of American Research in 1969. Eighteen years later, having worked for the school as an independent contractor for years, she gave the publications department the manuscript of her first major book. This project, six years in the writing, was an adventure story covering the romance and science of southwestern archaeology—Great Excavations: Tales of Early Southwestern Archaeology, 1888-1939. It was published in September 1995, and the reviews have been great. A few years previous, the school had also published Acoma and Laguna Pottery, a beautifully illustrated volume for which she received a “with” credit, while Rick Dillingham was listed as the primary author."
In between her arrival in Santa Fe and the publication of these two books were hours and hours of writing for newspapers and magazines—notably the Boston Globe and Denver Post.
Elliott visited Hawaii and she became a licensed massage therapist there with a specialty in aquatic bodywork.
Now she writes regularly for Massage and Bodywork Magazine, and she is working on a book compiling all of her articles on in-water massage.
The future of her work as a writer and therapist lies in those amazing experiences of the connection between mind, body and natural world.
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