Judy Blunt

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Judy Blunt (born 1954) is an American writer from Montana. She was raised on a ranch in a remote area near Regina, Montana, south of Malta, Montana. Blunt received her M.F.A. from the University of Montana in 1994. She received a Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship and a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Her essays and poems have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Big Sky Journal and Oprah Magazine. In 2001, she won the the Whiting Writers' Award.

She later turned the tales of her ranch life into an award-winning memoir, titled Breaking Clean (Knopf 2002), which won the PenJerard Fund Award, Mountains and Plains Nonfiction Book Award, Willa Cather Literary Award, and was one of The New York Times' Notable Books. Blunt currently resides in Missoula, Montana where she teaches at the University of Montana.

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