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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|American poet and writer (born 1946)}}<br />
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{{infobox writer<br />
|name=Maura Stanton<br />
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1946|9|9}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Evanston, Illinois]], U.S.<br />
|occupation={{flatlist|<br />
*Poet<br />
*writer<br />
}}<br />
|nationality=American<br />
|education=[[University of Minnesota]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Iowa]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])<br />
|spouse={{marriage|Richard Cecil|1972}}<br />
|parents=Joseph Stanton<br>Wanda Haggard Stanton<br />
}}<br />
'''Maura Stanton''' (born September 9, 1946) is an American poet, and writer.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7LW6ivYtFUIC&pg=PA272 ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing'', Laurie Rozakis]</ref><br />
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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.<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/maura-stanton-dlb/ Dictionary of Literary Biography on Maura Stanton]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/stanton.html|title=Indiana University Bloomington}}</ref><br />
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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''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1464|title = Read by Author &#124; Ploughshares}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction from ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' in 1982<br />
* Frances Steloff Fiction Prize in 1975<br />
* National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1974 and 1982<br />
* 1998 Nelson Algren Awards "Ping-Pong"<br />
* 2001 Richard Sullivan Award in Short Fiction<br />
* 2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Little-Known Birl of The Inner Eye'' (after the picture by Morris Graves), Oxford Poetry Vol III No 1 (Winter 1986)<ref>{{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 }}</ref><br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090329022026/http://caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/stanton.html ''Through the Dark'', Caffine Destiny online]<br />
* [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200810/poem-harp ''Royal Harp'', The Atlantic, October 2008]<br />
* [http://www.versedaily.org/2007/godsode.shtml ''God's Ode to Creation'', Verse Daily]<br />
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===Poetry books===<br />
* {{cite book |title=Snow on Snow |publisher=Yale University Press |date=January 1, 1975}}<br />
* {{cite book |title=Cries of Swimmers |publisher=University of Utah Press |date=January 1, 1984 |isbn=978-0-88748-124-6}}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{cite book |title=Glacier Wine |publisher=Carnegie Mellon Press |date=January 2001 |isbn=978-0-88748-340-0}}<br />
* {{cite book |title=Life Among the Trolls |publisher=Carnegie Mellon Press |date=April 1998 |isbn=978-0-88748-267-0}}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
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===Short story books===<br />
* {{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 }}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
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===Novels===<br />
* {{cite book |title=Molly Companion |url=https://archive.org/details/mollycompanion0000stan |url-access=registration |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill |date=January 1, 1977 |isbn=9780672523533 }}<br />
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===Criticism===<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2964 ''A Relative Stranger'', Ploughshares, Winter 1990–91]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3455 ''What Keeps Us Here'', Ploughshares, Winter 1992–93]<br />
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===Anthologies===<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
* {{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}}<br />
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===''Ploughshares'' {{Dead link|date=August 2010}}===<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=58 ''The Pear Orchard'', Ploughshares, Summer 1972]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=257 ''The Robber Bridegroom'', Ploughshares, Spring 1975]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=426 ''Circles'', Ploughshares, Spring 1977]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=425 ''Bathroom Walls'', Ploughshares, Spring 1977]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=424 ''New Neighbors in the South'', Ploughshares, Spring 1977]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1724 ''Heaven'', Ploughshares, Winter 1984]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1723 ''Attendant Lord'', Ploughshares, Winter 1984]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1722 ''The Cuckoo Clock'', Ploughshares, Winter 1984]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1926 ''Space'', Ploughshares, Spring 1985]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1925 ''March'', Ploughshares, Spring 1985]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1953 ''The Palace'', Ploughshares, Fall 1985]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2580 (guest editor), Ploughshares, Spring 1989]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3141 ''Number Seventeen'', Ploughshares, Fall 1991]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3297 ''The House of Cleopatra'', Ploughshares, Spring 1992]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4238 ''Squash Flowers'', Ploughshares, Spring 1997]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4354 ''Ben Nevis'', Ploughshares, Winter 1997–98]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4353 ''Happiness'', Ploughshares, Winter 1997–98]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7285 ''Milk of Human Kindness'', Ploughshares, Fall 2001]<br />
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7253 ''Glass House'', Ploughshares, Fall 2001]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.memorious.org/?id=162 Heather Madden, ''An Interview with Maura Stanton'', Memorious 7]<br />
* [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]<br />
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