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Samrat Upadhyay
Maura Stanton
Maura Stanton's first book of poetry, SNOW ON SNOW, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1975 and was reissued by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1993 as part of its contemporary classics series. Her second book, CRIES OF SWIMMERS, was published by the University of Utah Press in 1984 and was reissued by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1991. TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL was published by David R. Godine in 1988. Her novel MOLLY COMPANION (Bobbs-Merrill, 1997) was set in South America, and reprinted in Spanish as RIO ABAJO. THE COUNTRY I COME FROM, her collection of short stories about growing up in the Midwest, appeared from Milkweed Editions in 1988. Stanton's fourth book of poetry, LIFE AMONG THE TROLLS, was published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1998. Stanton's writing has also received the Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction from Michigan Quarterly Review, the Frances Steloff Fiction Prize, and two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short story, "Ping-Pong" won first place in the 1998 Nelson Algren Awards and was published in the Chicago Tribune. Another story, "Nijinsky," was featured in the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space in New York City in 1999, scheduled to be read by Joanne Woodward. Her second collection of short stories, DO NOT FORSAKE ME, OH MY DARLING, won the Richard Sullivan Award in Short Fiction and was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2001. Her fifth book of poetry, GLACIER WINE, was published by Carnegie-Mellon also in 2001. She has also been awarded the first Michigan Literary Fiction Award for her collection CITIES IN THE SEA, which was published by the University of Michigan Press in Fall 2003. Home Page: Maura Stanton |
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