Judy Troy
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Judy Troy is a Professor
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 at Auburn University
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, as well as a short story writer
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 and novel
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ist. Before becoming writer-in-residence at Auburn, she taught at Indiana University
Indiana University
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 and the University of Missouri
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. She received the 1996 Whiting Writers' Award
Whiting Writers' Award
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Her work includes Ramone appearing in The habit of art : best stories from the Indiana University fiction workshop (ISBN 0-253-21807-1) published 1996 and Ten Miles West of Venus (ISBN 0-385-33288-2; ISBN 0-679-45153-6) published 1997. She also has a story in Sudden Fiction (Continued) (60 New Short-Short Stories)
Sudden Fiction (Continued)
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. Other published works include West of Venus, From the Black Hills (ISBN 0-375-50230-0) and Mourning Doves: Stories (ISBN 0-684-19369-8). Mourning Doves was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award.

Troy has a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from Indiana University
Indiana University
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