Maureen Stanton’s memoir, The Murmur of Everything Moving, was selected as the 2024 Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence (CSU Press, 2025). Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), received the 2020 Maine Literary Award in memoir, and was a People Magazine "Best New Books" pick. Her book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin Press, 2011) won a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was selected by Parade Magazine's "12 Great Summer Books." Her essays have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, including Creative Nonfiction, Longreads, New England Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Sun, Florida Review, among others. She’s received the Iowa Review prize, American Literary Reveiw Prize, Pushcart Prizes, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Visit www.maureenstantonwriter.com [2].