| Judy Blunt | |
| Birth Place: | Phillips County, Montana, USA[1] |
| Occupation: | university professor[2] non-fiction author |
| Education: | M.F.A. from University of Montana |
| Genre: | memoir, essay |
| Children: | three |
| Awards: | Whiting Award (2001)[3] |
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]