• Source: Maura Stanton

      • 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 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. 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)
      Through the Dark, Caffine 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

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


      = Anthologies

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      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.


      = Ploughshares

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      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
      Maura Stanton, Photographs from the American Poetry Review Records, 1971–1998, Ms. Coll. 349

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