Maura Stanton
{{Short description|American poet and writer (born 1946)}}
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|birth_date={{birth date and age|1946|9|9}}
|birth_place=Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Poet
- writer
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|nationality=American
|education=University of Minnesota (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
|spouse={{marriage|Richard Cecil|1972}}
|parents=Joseph Stanton
Wanda Haggard 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=7LW6ivYtFUIC&pg=PA272 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing, Laurie Rozakis]
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.[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/maura-stanton-dlb/ Dictionary of Literary Biography on Maura Stanton]{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/stanton.html|title=Indiana University Bloomington}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1464|title = Read by Author | 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){{Cite web |url=http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index/i47.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=March 16, 2009 |archive-date=July 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705215233/http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index/i47.html |url-status=dead }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090329022026/http://caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/stanton.html Through the Dark, Caffine Destiny online]
- [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/poem-harp Royal Harp, The Atlantic, October 2008]
- [http://www.versedaily.org/2007/godsode.shtml God's Ode to Creation, Verse Daily]
=Poetry books=
- {{cite book |title=Snow on Snow |publisher=Yale University Press |date=January 1, 1975}}
- {{cite book |title=Cries of Swimmers |publisher=University of Utah Press |date=January 1, 1984 |isbn=978-0-88748-124-6}}
- {{cite book |title=Tales of the Supernatural |url=https://archive.org/details/talesofsupernatu0000stan |url-access=registration |publisher=David R Godine |date=October 1988 |isbn=978-0-87923-750-9}}
- {{cite book |title=Glacier Wine |publisher=Carnegie Mellon Press |date=January 2001 |isbn=978-0-88748-340-0}}
- {{cite book |title=Life Among the Trolls |publisher=Carnegie Mellon Press |date=April 1998 |isbn=978-0-88748-267-0}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlZomXifb1YC |title=Immortal Sofa |publisher=University of Illinois Press |date=July 28, 2008 |isbn=978-0-252-07580-3}}
=Short story books=
- {{cite book |title=THE COUNTRY I COME FROM |publisher=Milkweed Editions |date=October 1988 |isbn=978-0-915943-33-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/countryicomefrom0000stan }}
- {{cite book |title=Do not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |date=November 28, 2001 |isbn=978-0-268-02556-4}}
- {{cite book |title=CITIES IN THE SEA |publisher=University of Michigan Press |date=Fall 2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGfMU0pISlcC&q=Maura+Stanton |isbn=978-0-472-11364-4}}
=Novels=
- {{cite book |title=Molly Companion |url=https://archive.org/details/mollycompanion0000stan |url-access=registration |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill |date=January 1, 1977 |isbn=9780672523533 }}
=Criticism=
- [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2964 A Relative Stranger, Ploughshares, Winter 1990–91]
- [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3455 What Keeps Us Here, Ploughshares, Winter 1992–93]
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMu-bTgWUTAC&q=Maura+Stanton&pg=PA223 |title=Real things |editor1=Jim Elledge |editor2=Susan Swartwout |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-253-33434-3}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSeX9VnzS-YC&q=Maura+Stanton&pg=PA128 |title=The Best American Poetry 2005 |editor1=Paul Muldoon |editor2=David Lehman |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7432-5738-1}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zim99Q28NPUC&q=Maura+Stanton&pg=PA441 |title=New American Poets |editor1=Jack Elliott Myers |editor-link=Jack Elliott Myers |editor2=Roger Weingarten |publisher=David R. Godine Publisher |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-56792-302-5}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.memorious.org/?id=162 Heather Madden, An Interview with Maura Stanton, Memorious 7]
- [http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/photos/apr/stanton.html Maura Stanton, Photographs from the American Poetry Review Records, 1971–1998, Ms. Coll. 349]
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Category:20th-century American poets
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Category:20th-century American short story writers
Category:21st-century American poets