Middlesex Community College will host writer Maureen Stanton as part of the Visiting Writers Series at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3 in the Bedford Campus Caf茅 East.
鈥淚 feel very fortunate to be able to teach students who may very well be our nation鈥檚 future literary writers, who may become the voices of their generation,鈥� Stanton said. 鈥淎side from the joy of seeing aspiring young writers learn and grow and gain confidence in their craft, teaching creative writing has the added dividend of teaching myself 鈥� again and again 鈥� how to write, and how to think about writing.鈥�
A Professor of English at UMass Lowell, Stanton teaches creative writing. She is the author of 鈥淭he Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir鈥� (Columbus State U. Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence.
Stanton is also the author of 鈥淏ody Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood鈥� (Mariner Books, 2019), winner of the Maine Literary Award for memoir; as well as 鈥淜iller Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider鈥檚 Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting鈥� (Penguin Books, 2011), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction.
鈥淎side from the joy of seeing aspiring young writers learn and grow and gain confidence in their craft, teaching creative writing has the added dividend of teaching myself 鈥� again and again 鈥� how to write, and how to think about writing.鈥� - Maureen Stanton
Widely published, her nonfiction has been included in The New York Times, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, New England Review, River Teeth, and The Sun, among others.
She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Stanton鈥檚 essays have also received the Iowa Review prize, The Sewanee Review prize, Pushcart Prizes, the American Literary Review award, and the Thomas J. Hruska award from Passages North.
The 麻豆果冻 Visiting Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Student Engagement.