Judy Blunt
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Judy Blunt (born 10 October 1954) is an American writer from Montana. Her most notable work to date is Breaking Clean, a collection of linked essays exploring her rural upbringing.
Biography
Blunt was raised on a cattle ranch in a remote area of Phillips County, Montana,[1] near Regina, south of Malta, Montana. In 1986, she moved with her three small children to Missoula to attend the University of Montana.[2]
She later turned the tales of her ranch life into her memoir, Breaking Clean (Knopf 2002), which won a Whiting Award, the PEN/Jerard Fund Award,[2] Mountains and Plains Nonfiction Book Award, and Willa Cather Literary Award, and was one of The New York Times' Notable Books.[3] She received a Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship and a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.[4] In 2004, she received a National Endowment for the Arts writer's fellowship, and in 2006 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in Nonfiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Big Sky Journal and Oprah Magazine.[3] She also wrote the introduction for Joaquina Ballard Howles, No More Giants.
Blunt received her M.F.A. from the University of Montana in 1994.[3] She currently resides in Missoula, where she is a retired Professor and director of Creative Writing at the University of Montana.[3]
Bibliography
- Breaking Clean, Knopf: 2002 (hardcover), Template:ISBN
References
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External links
- Powells.com interview
- Random House author bio
- January Magazine review of Breaking Clean
- Excerpt from Breaking Clean
- U of M bio/press release
- A Conversation with Judy Blunt, author of Breaking Clean
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/52959.Judy_Blunt
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