Maura 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.

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

Short story books

Novels

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

Anthologies