Judy Blunt | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) Phillips County, Montana, USA [1] |
Occupation | university professor [2] non-fiction author |
Nationality | American |
Education | M.F.A. from University of Montana [2] |
Genre | memoir, essay |
Notable awards | Whiting Award (2001) [3] PEN/Jerard Fund Award for work in progress (1997) [4] |
Children | three |
Judy Blunt (born 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.
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. [5]
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, [5] Mountains and Plains Nonfiction Book Award, and Willa Cather Literary Award, and was one of The New York Times' Notable Books. [2] She received a Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship and a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. [6] Her essays and poems have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Big Sky Journal and Oprah Magazine. [2]
Blunt received her M.F.A. from the University of Montana in 1994. [2] She currently resides in Missoula, where she is an associate professor at the University of Montana. [2]