office: 330 Tate phone: 573-882-2023 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. office hours: Research and teaching areas: creative nonfiction: memoir, essay, literary journalism

Maureen Stanton teaches creative nonfiction writing. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Iowa Review, American Literary Review, The Sun, and Riverteeth, among other journals, as well as several anthologies, including Best of The Sun, Best of Brevity, Best Texas Writing, and The Riverteeth Reader. Five of her essays have been listed as "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008). Her nonfiction has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mary Roberts Rinehard Award, the Penelope Niven Award, the Iowa Review Award, The American Literary Review Nonfiction Prize, and the Thomas J. Hruska Prize from Passages North. She has twice received an Individual Artist grant from the Maine Arts Commission, and a 2006 NEA Literature Fellowship, and grants from the Vogelstein Fund and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She has been Writer-in-Residence at St. Mary's College of Maryland, the Ronald Goldfarb Family Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.

Her book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America, which explores the subculture of flea markets, antiques, and collecting was released in cloth from The Penguin Press in summer 2011, and will be released in paperback in May 2012. For more information, visit www.killerstuffandtonsofmoney.com.

Education

MFA, Ohio State University

Selected Publications

• The Hours: In Pursuit of Sleep. Riverteenth, Fall 2010.
• A Basketball Jones. Sport Literate, Winter 2009/2010.
• Roadshow Rage. Florida Review, Winter 2008.
• Let Us Eat Cake. American Literary Review, 2008
• Miss Somebody. Passages North, Spring 2008
• The Cat is a Haunt. Crab Orchard Review, May 2007
• Laundry. Iowa Review, Winter 2004

Courses Taught

• English 1520: Creative Writing, Introduction to Nonfiction Prose
• English 2520: Intermediate Nonfiction Prose
• English 4100/7100: Genres, Literary Journalism / cross-listed Journalism 4301
• English 4520/7520: Creative Writing, Advanced Nonfiction Prose