Maura Stanton (born September 9, 1946) is an American poet, and writer.
Biography
Maura Stanton was born to Joseph Stanton, a salesman, and Wanda Haggard Stanton, a nurse, in
Evanston, Illinois. She received her B.A. from the
University of Minnesota in 1969, and her M.F.A. in 1971 from the
University of Iowa.
She married Richard Cecil in 1972. She has taught at the
State University of New York
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at Cortland (1972–1973), the
University of Richmond (1973–1977),
Humboldt State University (1977–1978), the
University of Arizona (1978–1982), and
Indiana University, since 1982. She was also named as the distinguished author in residence at
Mary Washington College
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for the 1981–1982 academic year.
Her first book of poetry, ''SNOW ON SNOW'', won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1975, and was reissued by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1993 as part of its contemporary classics series. Her second book, ''CRIES OF SWIMMERS'', was published by the University of Utah Press in 1984 and was reissued by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1991. Her work appeared in ''Ploughshares''.
Awards
* Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction from ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' in 1982
* Frances Steloff Fiction Prize in 1975
* National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1974 and 1982
* 1998 Nelson Algren Awards "Ping-Pong"
* 2001 Richard Sullivan Award in Short Fiction
* 2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award
Works
* ''Little-Known Birl of The Inner Eye'' (after the picture by Morris Graves), Oxford Poetry Vol III No 1 (Winter 1986)
Poetry books
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Short story books
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Novels
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Criticism
''A Relative Stranger'', Ploughshares, Winter 1990–91''What Keeps Us Here'', Ploughshares, Winter 1992–93
Anthologies
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''Ploughshares''
''The Pear Orchard'', Ploughshares, , Summer 1972''The Robber Bridegroom'', Ploughshares, , Spring 1975''Circles'', Ploughshares, , Spring 1977''Bathroom Walls'', Ploughshares, Spring 1977''New Neighbors in the South'', Ploughshares, Spring 1977''Heaven'', Ploughshares, Winter 1984''Attendant Lord'', Ploughshares, Winter 1984''The Cuckoo Clock'', Ploughshares, Winter 1984''Space'', Ploughshares, Spring 1985''March'', Ploughshares, Spring 1985''The Palace'', Ploughshares, Fall 1985(guest editor), Ploughshares, Spring 1989''Number Seventeen'', Ploughshares, Fall 1991''The House of Cleopatra'', Ploughshares, Spring 1992''Squash Flowers'', Ploughshares, Spring 1997''Ben Nevis'', Ploughshares, Winter 1997–98''Happiness'', Ploughshares, Winter 1997–98''Milk of Human Kindness'', Ploughshares, Fall 2001''Glass House'', Ploughshares, Fall 2001
References
External links
Heather Madden, ''An Interview with Maura Stanton'', Memorious 7
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1946 births
Living people
University of Minnesota alumni
University of Iowa alumni
State University of New York faculty
University of Richmond faculty
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt faculty
University of Arizona faculty
Indiana University faculty
American women poets
American women academics
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American women writers