Maureen Stanton

Maureen Stanton’s memoir, Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), won the 2020 Maine Literary Award in memoir, and was a People Magazine "Best New Books" pick. Her book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin Press, 2011) won a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was selected for Parade Magazine's "12 Great Summer Books." Her essays have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Creative Nonfiction, Longreads, New England Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Sun, and Florida Review, among others. Her short creative nonfiction has been  listed as "Notable" seven times in the Best American Essays series, and received the Iowa Review Prize, the American Literary Review Prize, and Pushcart Prizes. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Visit www.maureenstantonwriter.com.