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". Wikipedia
Raised on a Montana ranch four hours from the nearest cities of any size (Great Falls and Billings), offered in marriage at age eighteen by her father to a neighboring rancher twelve years her senior, Judy Blunt spent the first thirty years of her life ci www.powells.com/authors/blunt.html
author spotlight Judy Blunt spent more than thirty years on wheat and cattle ranches in northeastern Montana, before leaving in 1986 to attend the University of Montana. www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2624
With vivid detail and unflinching language, "Breaking Clean" chronicles the first 30 years of Blunt's life on isolated ranches near Malta, and her subsequent move across the Continental Divide to Missoula. www.umt.edu/urelations/MainHall/302/blunt.htm
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