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 Café East.
“I feel very fortunate to be able to teach students who may very well be our nation’s future literary writers, who may become the voices of their generation,” Stanton said. “Aside 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 – again and again – how to write, and how to think about writing.”
A Professor of English at UMass Lowell, Stanton teaches creative writing. She is the author of “The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir” (Columbus State U. Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence.
Stanton is also the author of “Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood” (Mariner Books, 2019), winner of the Maine Literary Award for memoir; as well as “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting” (Penguin Books, 2011), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction.
“Aside 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 – again and again – how to write, and how to think about writing.” - 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’s 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 MCC Visiting Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Student Engagement.