Judy Blunt
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October 10, 1954
Phillips County, Montana, USA[1]
Judy Blunt | |
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| Born | Judy Blunt October 10, 1954 Phillips County, Montana, USA[1] |
| Pen name | Judy Matovich |
| Occupation | University Professor[2] Non-fiction Author |
| Education | M.F.A. from University of Montana[2] |
| Alma mater | University of Montana |
| Genre | Memoir, Essay |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (2001)[3] PEN/Jerard Fund Award for work in progress (1997)[4] |
| Spouse | John Raymond Matovich |
| Children | Three |
| Relatives | Shirley 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.
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 publications such 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]
