Maureen Stanton

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Author's Bio

Maureen Stanton’s memoir, Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), received the 2020 Maine Literary Award in memoir, and was a People Magazine "Best New Books" pick. Her book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin Press, 2011) won a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was selected by Parade Magazine's "12 Great Summer Books." Her essays have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Creative Nonfiction, Longreads, New England Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Sun, Florida Review, among others. She’s received the Iowa Review prize, American Literary Reveiw Prize, Pushcart Prizes, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Visit www.maureenstantonwriter.com.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)
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Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider's Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin, 2011)
Prizes won: 

Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence;  Sewanee Review nonfiction prize; National Endowment for the Arts; Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant; Mary Roberts Rinehart Award; Iowa Review award in nonfiction; American Literary Review award in nonfiction; Thomas J. Hruska Award in nonfiction from Passages North; Pushcart Prizes. 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
James Baldwin, David Foster Wallace, Virginia Woolf, E.B White, Toni Morrison, Edmund White

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Raised in: 
MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Sep 24, 2024