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Judy Troy, Professor and Alumni Writer-in-Residence, received her MA in creative writing from Indiana University. She specializes in fiction and was the recipient of a 1996 Whiting Writers' Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as in literary journals and anthologies.

She's the author of Mourning Doves, a collection of stories published by Scribner's in l993; and West of Venus, a novel published by Random House in l997. Her second novel, From the Black Hills, was published by Random House in 1999. She is currently working on a third novel.

Auburn University Panhellenic Council Award for Outstanding Professor, Winter 2002

Representative Publications
"Towns Less Travelled By," The New York Times, June 5, l997.

"Ramone," The New Yorker, November 25, l996: 102-05.

"Ten Miles West of Venus," anthologized in Nothing But You, Love Stories From The New Yorker, Random House, l997: 291-95.

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