Maura Stanton

Maura Stanton
Maura Stanton
Born	Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Education	University of Minnesota (BA); University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupations	Poet; writer;
Spouse	Richard Cecil (m. 1972)
Parent(s)	Joseph Stanton; Wanda Haggard Stanton

Maura Stantonis an American poet and writer.

Early life and education

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.

Career

Stanton has taught at the State University of New York 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 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.^{[citation needed]} Her other poetry collections include Glacier Wine, Tales of the Supernatural, and Life Among the Trolls.

Other work includes Cities in the Sea, a collection of short fiction that was the winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award; Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling, which won the Sullivan Prize, and The Country I Come From

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares.

Awards

1982 Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction from Michigan Quarterly Review
Frances Steloff Fiction Prize in 1975
National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1974 and 1982
1998 Nelson Algren Award for "Ping-Pong"
2001 Richard Sullivan Award in Short Fiction
2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award

Personal life

She married Richard Cecil in 1972.

Works

Little-Known Birl of The Inner Eye (after the picture by Morris Graves), Oxford Poetry Vol III No 1 (Winter 1986)
Through the Dark, Caffeine Destiny online
Royal Harp, The Atlantic, October 2008
God's Ode to Creation, Verse Daily

Poetry books

Snow on Snow. Yale University Press. January 1, 1975.
Cries of Swimmers. University of Utah Press. January 1, 1984. ISBN 978-0-88748-124-6.
Tales of the Supernatural. David R Godine. October 1988. ISBN 978-0-87923-750-9.
Glacier Wine. Carnegie Mellon Press. January 2001. ISBN 978-0-88748-340-0.
Life Among the Trolls. Carnegie Mellon Press. April 1998. ISBN 978-0-88748-267-0.
Immortal Sofa. University of Illinois Press. July 28, 2008. ISBN 978-0-252-07580-3.

Short story books

THE COUNTRY I COME FROM. Milkweed Editions. October 1988. ISBN 978-0-915943-33-3.
Do not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling. University of Notre Dame Press. November 28, 2001. ISBN 978-0-268-02556-4.
CITIES IN THE SEA. University of Michigan Press. Fall 2003. ISBN 978-0-472-11364-4.

Novels

Molly Companion. Bobbs-Merrill. January 1, 1977. ISBN 9780672523533.

Criticism

A Relative Stranger, Ploughshares, Winter 1990–91
What Keeps Us Here, Ploughshares, Winter 1992–93

Anthologies

Jim Elledge; Susan Swartwout, eds. (1999). Real things. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33434-3.
Paul Muldoon; David Lehman, eds. (2005). The Best American Poetry 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1.
Jack Elliott Myers; Roger Weingarten, eds. (2005). New American Poets. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-302-5.

References

1 2 3 4 "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Maura Stanton". BookRags. November 2, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2026. (Short extract available free)
1 2 3 "Maura Stanton". Ploughshares. August 13, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5. Retrieved March 17, 2026.
↑ "Oxford Poetry Vol III No 1 (Winter 1986)". Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2009.

External links

Heather Madden, "An Interview with Maura Stanton", Memorious 7
"Maura Stanton", Photographs from the American Poetry Review Records, 1971–1998, Ms. Coll. 349

[bookrags-1] 1 2 3 4 "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Maura Stanton". BookRags. November 2, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2026. (Short extract available free)

[ps-2] 1 2 3 "Maura Stanton". Ploughshares. August 13, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2026.

[3] International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5. Retrieved March 17, 2026.

[4] "Oxford Poetry Vol III No 1 (Winter 1986)". Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2009.

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