Maura Stanton

Maura Stanton was born to Joseph Stanton, a salesman, and Wanda Haggard Stanton, a nurse, in Evanston, Illinois.^[1]

She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and her M.F.A. in 1971 from the University of Iowa.^[1]

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.^[1]

She was also named as the distinguished author in residence at Mary Washington College for the 1981–1982 academic year.^[1]

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.^[2]

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^[2]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares.^[2]

• 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

She married Richard Cecil in 1972.^[3]