Maura Stanton

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. ==Career==

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. ==Awards==

• 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 ==Personal life==

She married Richard Cecil in 1972. ==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, Caffeine Destiny online • Royal Harp, The Atlantic, October 2008 • ''God's Ode to Creation'', Verse Daily Poetry books • • • • • • Short story books • • • Novels • Criticism • A Relative Stranger, Ploughshares, Winter 1990–91 • What Keeps Us Here, Ploughshares, Winter 1992–93 Anthologies • • • ==References==