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Molly Murfee serves as an MA Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability at Western Colorado University's Clark Family School of Environment & Sustainability. She specializes in environmental writing and place-based education, with functional areas including Water Studies, Food Systems, Climate Action Planning, and various environmental management concentrations.
Her educational background includes an MA from Colorado State University in English with a Nature Writing & Environmental Literature Emphasis (1995) and a BA from Tulane University in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis (1991).
Murfee's research interests focus on the intersection of creative writing and environmental activism, exploring how narrative can foster deeper connections between people and wilderness. She has spent over 30 years studying and teaching ecofeminism, mythology, women's studies, environmental literature, philosophy, ethics, history, anthropology, and indigenous cultures. Her work emphasizes outdoor experiential education as a method to create meaningful connections between students and the natural world.
Her extensive publication record spans over 500 articles in regional and national publications including The Mountain Gazette and Powder Magazine. Her writing consistently addresses wilderness preservation, environmental issues, mountain culture, sustainability, and human rights, with a focus on inspiring readers toward positive environmental and social change.
- Finalist for the 2022 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
- Contributor to the 2022 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference
- Creative grant recipient from Colorado Creative Industries
- Creative grant recipient from the Crested Butte Arts Festival
Murfee has taught at multiple institutions including Colorado College (co-teaching with Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams), Colorado State University, and the Audubon Expedition Institute. She has received grants supporting her creative work and regularly contributes to community publications like the Crested Butte News. She is currently working on her book The Adventure of Home, which addresses settler colonialism, resource exploitation, and patriarchal dominion while reweaving a living mythology of sacred earth and connection.
