Word: budnitz
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...Judy Budnitz ’95 hated Expos. “I think my Expos teacher hated me, too,” she adds. But despite the trauma of that allegedly instructional experience—and a half-dozen creative writing classes later—Budnitz realized she was cut out to be a author. The 20-odd short stories that made up her senior thesis formed the bulk of Budnitz’s first published collection, entitled Flying Leap. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher was one of the oral examiners of Budnitz?...
...seemed to me, along with 30 other stories of hers, to have complete freshness of mood and novelty in combination of tones and levels of reality,” Fisher says. Budnitz says many professors like Fisher use her stories as examples for young writers. “I hope that by including a set of stories by younger writers, I can put in front of students some of the kinds of work they might find interesting in their own generation,” Fisher says. Budnitz’s surrealistic story contrasts with Fisher regulars like the daunting Faulkner...
...work finished, and polished, before graduating from college. In fact, several recent graduates of the program have gone on to publish or win awards for writing which developed out of their creative theses, including recent O. Henry award recipient Murad Kalam ’95, and published novelist Judy Budnitz...