The Georgia Review has accepted Lucien’s review of C.T. Salazar and Casie Dodd’s Mid/South Sonnets for an upcoming issue. (8/2024)

For an upcoming issue on Interpreting Environmental Justice, Legacy Magazine has invited Lucien to interview queer, disability, and environmental justice activist Eli Clare (a long-time hero of Lucien’s!). (7/2024)

The Fort Collins Running Club‘s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee, co-led by Lucien, has launched a new monthly Adaptive & LGBTQ+ Athlete Run series, and all are welcome to attend. (6/2024)

The Northeast Popular and American Culture Association has invited Lucien to present on appropriation in contemporary Witchcraft at their annual conference. (6/2024)

To honor and raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives, Lucien completed Rising Hearts‘ MMIWR running “trifecta weekend” of a 5K, 10K, and half marathon in northern Colorado, on the unceded lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and Peoples. (5/2024)

Lucien served Colorado Humanities as a selector for the 2024 Colorado Book Awards, working collaboratively with a small team to determine three finalists in a specific genre, with the winner announced in June. (4/2024)

The City of Fort Collins Natural Areas and Larimer County Natural Resources recognized Lucien at the annual appreciation event for his 5 years of dedicated service as a Volunteer Ranger Assistant, patrolling 85,000 acres of Rocky Mountain properties for trail health and visitor education. (4/2024)

Poetry Northwest has accepted Lucien’s review of dg nanouk okpik’s poetry collection Blood Snow for an upcoming issue. (3/2024)

With the assistance of community members, Lucien wrote, revised, and received Board approval on a Nonbinary Runner Inclusion Checklist for Fort Collins Running Club stakeholders and local race directors. (3/2024)

The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism has invited Lucien to present on action and resistance in the Cherokee Phoenix at their 2024 “Romantic Insurrectons / Counter-Insurrections” National Conference. (2/2024)

Lucien’s essay to the forthcoming anthology on rural queer identity, edited by Rae Garringer and to be published by University of Kentucky Press in the Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices series, has passed peer review and is advancing to pre-publication. (2/2024)

Still: The Journal has accepted Lucien’s review of Emily Pifer’s The Running Body for an upcoming issue. (1/2024)

Lucien has launched the Guest Editor program with the National Association for Interpretation‘s Legacy Magazine to help increase field diversity and dismantle systemic barriers while building job skills, with each Guest Editor mentored in curating a digital issue from start to finish. (1/2024)

The Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies has invited Lucien to present on the inclusion (and exclusion) of eighteenth-century working-class and women writers in the Encyclopædia Britannica at their annual conference. (12/2023)

The Northeast Popular and American Culture Association has invited Lucien to continue serving in the Conference Organizing Committee, with a service focus on access and accessibility. (12/2023)

As Managing Editor, Lucien successfully supervised the transition of the National Association for Interpretation’s Legacy Magazine from print to all-digital, with positive member response. (11/2023)

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment has named Lucien their Scholar of the Month for November 2023. (11/2023)

The European Studies Conference featured Lucien’s presentation on the erotics of grammar in nineteenth-century cloud treatises at their 2023 gathering. (10/2023)

The Fort Collins Running Club’s annual Gifted Feet community fundraiser, this year co-directed by Lucien and benefitting myTEAM TRIUMPH Colorado, welcomed 3x more donors than past years and raised 2x more funds for this community cause. (10/2023)

In honor of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (Orange Shirt Day), remembering the survivors of Indigenous boarding schools and those who never returned home, Lucien ran ten consecutive half-marathons from 9/21 through 9/30 in support and solidarity. (9/2023)

The International Virginia Woolf Society has invited Lucien to present on Woolf’s queer clouds at their 2023 Woolf & Ecologies symposium. (9/2023)

About Place Journal‘s special issue “On Rivers” has released, featuring environmental poetry, prose, and art curated by lead editors Teresa Dzieglewicz and Laura-Gray Street, and contributing editors Lucien Darjeun Meadows and Irene Vázquez. (8/2023)

Seneca Review has published Lucien’s review of Abigail Chabitnoy’s 2022 poetry collection In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful, which moves across Alutiiq and English to discuss violence against women and nature. (8/2023)

For their Reclaiming the Commons biennial conference, the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment featured Lucien’s presentation on hydro-eroticism in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Tithonus.” (7/2023)

Lucien completed his third “solo” running of the Quad Rock 50, achieving a rare negative split for the second half of a two-loop course with six significant hills and over 11,000′ total vertical gain. (7/2023)

The Northeast Popular and American Culture Association has invited Lucien to present on Indigenous identity appropriation at their annual conference. (6/2023)

The John Clare Society Journal has peer-reviewed and accepted Lucien’s article on embodied ecologies of wonder in John Clare’s sonnets and Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals. (6/2023)

Lucien’s debut poetry collection, In the Hands of the River, has been named a finalist for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s Creative Book Award. (5/2023)

To honor and raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives, Lucien completed a self-designed 40-mile trail run around Horsetooth Reservoir for the third year in a row, summiting three significant peaks with 8,000′ total vertical gain. (5/2023)

After sixteen months and numerous listening sessions, meetings, and drafts, Lucien and community partners have succeeded in securing unanimous Board approval and organization-wide adoption of an inclusive Athlete Gender Policy with the Fort Collins Running Club. (4/2023)

Lucien has completed the full “defense draft” of his dissertation for his University of Denver committee, and will defend The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics in May 2023. (4/2023)

For their (In)Complete Ecosystems conference, the Université de Montréal hosted Lucien for a presentation on queer weather in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “The House of Clouds.” (3/2023)

Lucien’s debut poetry collection, In the Hands of the River, has been named a runner-up for the Weatherford Award, the premier award for literature of the Appalachian South. (3/2023)

Legacy Magazine, the periodical of the National Association for Interpretation, has hired Lucien as their Managing Editor. (2/2023)

The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism has invited Lucien to present on wonder and environmental justice at their annual conference. (1/2023)