Maureen Seaton
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Maureen Seaton | |
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| Born | October 20, 1947 Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | August 26, 2023 (aged 75) Longmont, Colorado, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Vermont College of Fine Arts |
| Period | 1991-2023 |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award, Audre Lorde Award, Pushcart Prize |
Maureen Therese Seaton (October 20, 1947 – August 26, 2023) was an American lesbian poet, memoirist, and professor of creative writing.[1][2] She authored fifteen solo books of poetry, co-authored an additional thirteen, and wrote one memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, which won the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography.[3] Seaton's writing has been described as "unusual, compressed, and surrealistic," and was frequently created in collaboration with fellow poets such as Denise Duhamel, Samuel Ace, Neil de la Flor, David Trinidad, Kristine Snodgrass, cin salach, Niki Nolin, and Mia Leonin.[4][5]
Seaton received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1996.[4] She taught poetry workshops and served as Artist-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago from 1993-2002, teaching concurrently in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1997-1999. She began teaching creative writing at the University of Miami in 2002, eventually serving as Director of the Creative Writing Program, and remained a faculty member there until her retirement in 2020.[6] She was voted Miami’s Best Poet in 2020 by the Miami New Times.[7]
