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Judy Doenges is an American writer and associate professor at Colorado State University.

Early life

Doenges was born in Elmhurst, Illinois.[1]

Writing

Katherine Dieckmann, in The New York Times, described Doenges’ 1999 short story collection What She Left Me as “a superb debut” and the stories as “an eclectic and often wryly comical bunch, with an impressive range of protagonists”.[2]

Her What She Left Me won the 2000 Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian literature,[3] and her short story “Melinda”, originally published in The Kenyon Review, was included in the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories.[4]

In 2002 she was awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and wrote that she planned to use it to complete her novel The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and for research trips to Illinois and a bail recovery agent course as part of her next project, “a set of linked stories about a Chicago-area bail bond officer”.[5]

She retired from Colorado State University in 2019, having taught literature and creative writing at both undergraduate and graduate levels.[6][7]

Selected publications

  • Doenges, Judy (1999). What she left me: stories and novella. [Middlebury, Vt.] : Hanover, NH: Middlebury College Press ; University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0874519372.[2]
  • Doenges, Judy (2006). The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. University of Michigan Regional. ISBN 978-0472115617.[8][9]
  • Doenges, Judy (2011). “Melinda”. In Furman, Laura (ed.). PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011. ISBN 9780307472373. (originally published in The Kenyon Review)[10]

References

  1. ^ “Judy Doenges”. Guernica Magazine. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  2. ^ a b Dieckmann, Katharine (August 15, 1999). “Out of the Closet, or Whatever”. New York Times. archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  3. ^ “The Ferro-Grumley Awards”. The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  4. ^ “PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 by Prize Jury: A.M. Homes, Manuel Muñoz, Christine Schutt Edited with an introduction by Laura Furman”. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca. Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  5. ^ “Judy Doenges”. www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. 2002. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  6. ^ “Judy Doenges: Memories and Good Wishes – English”. Colorado State University. April 29, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  7. ^ “Faculty Profile: Judy Doenges – English”. Colorado State University. May 9, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  8. ^ Miller, Martha (November–December 2006). “Coming Out in Lilac (IL)”. The Gay & Lesbian Review. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  9. ^ “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”. Kirkus Reviews. April 15, 2006. Retrieved April 20, 2026.
  10. ^ “Introduction to 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories”. PEN America. April 13, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2026.