Maureen Stanton is the author of The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir (CSU Press, 2025), winner of the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, forthcoming in March 2025; Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), winner of the Maine Literary Award for memoir, and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin, 2012), winner of a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. Her essays and creative nonfiction have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including in The New York Times, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, New England Review, Florida Review, River Teeth, Sport Literate, Crab Orchard Review, The Sun and many others. She’s received an Iowa Review prize, The Sewanee Review, Pushcart Prizes, the American Literary Review nonfiction award, the Thomas J. Hruska award in nonfiction from Passages North, the Penelope Niven Nonfiction Award from Salem College Center for Women Writers, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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