Maura 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.

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.

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.

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)
 * Through the Dark, Caffine Destiny online
 * Royal Harp, The Atlantic, October 2008
 * God's Ode to Creation, Verse Daily

Criticism

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

Ploughshares

 * The Pear Orchard, Ploughshares,, Summer 1972
 * The Robber Bridegroom, Ploughshares,, Spring 1975
 * Circles, Ploughshares,, Spring 1977
 * Bathroom Walls, Ploughshares, Spring 1977
 * New Neighbors in the South, Ploughshares, Spring 1977
 * Heaven, Ploughshares, Winter 1984
 * Attendant Lord, Ploughshares, Winter 1984
 * The Cuckoo Clock, Ploughshares, Winter 1984
 * Space, Ploughshares, Spring 1985
 * March, Ploughshares, Spring 1985
 * The Palace, Ploughshares, Fall 1985
 * (guest editor), Ploughshares, Spring 1989
 * Number Seventeen, Ploughshares, Fall 1991
 * The House of Cleopatra, Ploughshares, Spring 1992
 * Squash Flowers, Ploughshares, Spring 1997
 * Ben Nevis, Ploughshares, Winter 1997–98
 * Happiness, Ploughshares, Winter 1997–98
 * Milk of Human Kindness, Ploughshares, Fall 2001
 * Glass House, Ploughshares, Fall 2001