Maureen Stanton

Maureen Stanton is an award-winning writer, whose most recent book, "Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood," was a "People Magazine" Best New Books choice. People Magazine called Body Leaping Backward a "blazingly important memoir about the possibility of change." Stanton also wrote "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," a work of immersion journalism that explores the subculture of flea markets, antiques, and collecting. "Killer Stuff" received a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and her work has been listed as "Notable" by Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin) six times. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.