Author: 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. My first book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin Press, 2012) won a Massachusetts Book Award, and was selected for Parade Magazine's "12 Great Summer Books." My 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, and listed several times as "Notable" in Best American Essays. I’ve received the Iowa Review prize, the American Literary Review Prize, Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.