Assistant Professor

office: 51 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-2023
email: stantonm@missouri.edu
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Research and teaching areas:
creative nonfiction: memoir, essay,
literary journalism

Maureen Stanton

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, and Best Texas Writing. Three of her essays were listed as "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin 1998, 2004, 2005). Her work has received a Pushcart Prize (2007), the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Creative Nonfiction, The Penelope Niven Award in Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review Award in Creative Nonfiction, The American Literary Review Nonfiction prize, The Goldfarb Family Fellowship n Creative Nonfiction, a Santa Fe Writer's Project Award, and the Thomas J. Hruska Prize in Nonfiction.

She has twice received an Individual Artist grant from the Maine Arts Commission, and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts 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 in Maryland, and a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony.

Education
MFA, Ohio State University

Selected Publications

• Let Us Eat Cake American Literary Review, forthcoming Spring 2008
• Miss Somebody Passages North, Spring 2008
• The Cat is a Haunt Crab Orchard Review, May 2007
• Laundry Iowa Review, Winter 2004 www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/stanton.html

Courses Taught

• English 1520: Creative Writing: Introduction to Nonfiction Prose
• English 2520: Intermediate Nonfiction Prose
• English 4520/7520: Creative Writing: Advanced Nonfiction Prose
• English 8520: Advanced Writing of Nonfiction Prose

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