Maureen Stanton

Maureen Stanton is the author of Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting, (The Penguin Press) a work of literary immersion journalism. Killer Stuff and Tons of Money was a 2012 “Must Read” selection by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, the nonfiction finalist in the Maine Literary Awards, and a favorite book of 2011 in the Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star, San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Louis Post Dispatch among others. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Crab Orchard Review, Sport Literate, Brevity, Florida Review, The Sun, and other journals, as well as several anthologies, such as Lifewriting Annual, Writers and Their Notebooks, Literature: The Human Experience, Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, The River Teeth Reader, Best of Brevity, and Writing True. She has received the Iowa Review prize, a Pushcart prize, the American Literary Review nonfiction prize, the Thomas J. Hruska prize in nonfiction from Passages North, a Mary Roberts Rinehart award, and the Penelope Niven award from Salem College Center for Women. Her essays have been listed five times as ANotable@ in Houghton Mifflin’s annual Best American Essays series. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, twice been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow. 

Before joining the faculty at UMass Lowell, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in creative nonfiction, and literary journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.