Maura Stanton received her
BA from the University of Minnesota and her MFA from the University of Iowa. Her first book of poetry, SNOW ON
SNOW, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1975. Her second collection, CRIES OF SWIMMERS, was published
by the University of Utah Press in 1984.
Each of these titles has been reprinted in the Carnegie Mellon Classic
Contemporary Series. TALES
OF THE SUPERNATURAL was published by David R. Godine in 1988. Carnegie Mellon published LIFE
AMONG THE TROLLS in 1988 and GLACIER WINE in 2001. Her novel, MOLLY COMPANION, was set in South America
and reprinted in Spanish as RIO ABAJO.
THE COUNTRY I
COME FROM, stories about
growing up in the Midwest, appeared from Milkweed Editions in 1988, and
DO NOT FORSAKE ME, OH MY DARLING, a collection of short stories, won
the Richard Sullivan Prize for 2002 and was published by the University of
Notre Dame Press. CITIES IN THE SEA, a collection of short
stories, was selected by Charles Baxter and Nicholas Delbanco for the Michigan
Literary Award, and was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2003.
Poems, stories, essays and interviews have appeared in many anthologies
and magazines including the BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2003, 2005,
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, THIRD COAST, PLOUGHSHARES,
TRIQUARTERLY, CRAZYHORSE, NOTRE DAME REVIEW,
THE ANTIOCH REVIEW, RIVER STYX, WATER~STONE, THE
PARIS REVIEW, POETRY, THE NEW YORKER, CABBAGE AND
BONES, STAND UP POETRY, COMING UP FOR AIR: CONVERSATIONS
WITH IRISH WOMEN WRITERS, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and THE SOUTHERN
REVIEW. She is Professor
of English at Indiana University where she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative
Writing.