Judy Blunt

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Judy Blunt
BornJudy Blunt
(1954-10-10) October 10, 1954 (age 70)
Phillips County, Montana, USA [1]
Pen nameJudy Matovich
Occupation University Professor [2] Non-fiction Author
EducationM.F.A. from University of Montana [2]
Alma materUniversity of Montana
Genre Memoir, Essay
Notable awards Whiting Award (2001) [3] PEN/Jerard Fund Award for work in progress (1997) [4]
SpouseJohn Raymond Matovich
ChildrenThree
RelativesShirley Ann Aikins (Mother) Clarence Russell Blunt (Father)

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.

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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. [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] 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 such publications as The New York Times, Big Sky Journal and Oprah Magazine. [2] 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. [2] She currently resides in Missoula, where she is a retired Professor and director of Creative Writing at the University of Montana. [2]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Author's Desktop: Judy Blunt". Random House . Retrieved 18 January 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Faculty bio". University of Montana. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Judy Blunt, whiting award winner in nonfiction". www.whiting.org. Whiting Awards. 2001. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Europa (13 December 2002). The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Abingdon, Oxon.: Europa Publications Limited. p. 225. ISBN   9781857431469.
  5. 1 2 "UM author Judy Blunt hits the big time with 'Breaking Clean'". University of Montana. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
  6. ↑ "Breaking Clean (reading group guide)". Reading Group Guides. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
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