Judy Troy (born 1951) is a

professor emerita ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retirement, retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". ...

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a tota ...

, as well as a short story writer and novelist. Before becoming writer-in-residence at Auburn, she taught at

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a state university system, system of Public university, public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. The system has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration o ...

and the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

. She received a 1996

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

. Her work includes "Ramone" appearing in ''The Habit of Art : Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop'' () published 1996 and ''Ten Miles West of Venus'' (; ) published 1997. She also has a story in ''Sudden Fiction (Continued) (60 New Short-Short Stories)''. Other published works include ''West of Venus'', ''From the Black Hills'' () and ''Mourning Doves: Stories'' (). ''Mourning Doves'' was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Troy attended Munster High School. She has a B.A. from the

University of Illinois Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

in 1976 and an M.A. from

in 1981.

External links

Bio at Auburn Univ.Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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