Judy Budnitz

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Judy Budnitz was born in 1973 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Harvard in 1995, and recieved an MFA in creative writing from New York University in 1998.

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Books by Judy Budnitz

Average rating: 3.90 · 1,036 ratings · 124 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Nice Big American Baby 3.83 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	If I Told You Once 3.85 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Flying Leap 4.03 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tin House: Fantastic Women by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author), Judy Budnitz, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum 3.96 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sara Douglass (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Generación quemada (Una antología de autores norteamericanos) by Zadie Smith (Editor), George Saunders, Jeffrey Eugenides 3.86 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Donne e uomini, e altre storie d'amore by Joyce Carol Oates, Roddy Doyle, Deb Olin Unferth 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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“I looked at his eyes. I was thinking: they are bluer than the sea.
But then the sea is not blue at all, is it?”
― Judy Budnitz, If I Told You Once

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“I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did.
When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look.
Now I blended in.”
― Judy Budnitz, If I Told You Once

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“What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.”
― Judy Budnitz, Nice Big American Baby

tags: saving-face , short-fiction

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