Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Maureen Stanton

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Columbia, MO
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001
More: www.maureenstantonwriter.com
Maureen Stanton graduated with a B.A. in communication studies from the University of Massachusetts. For a decade, she worked in fund raising for environmental conservation, first as director of development for The Nature Conservancy in Michigan and then for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Later, she attended graduate school at Ohio State, where she earned an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction. Currently she teaches creative writing and literary journalism at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Studios

Garland

Maureen Stanton worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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