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Maureen Stanton's nonfiction has appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Crab Orchard Review, The Sun, River Teeth, and many other literary journals. Her essays have received the Iowa Review Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the American Literary Review prize, and been listed as ANotable@ in Best American Essays five times. She's received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Maine Arts Commission fellowship, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart award in nonfiction. Her book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider's Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques and Collecting (Penguin 2011) won second place in the Maine Literary Awards, was selected as a 2012 "Must Read" book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and was listed as a "Favorite Book of 2011" in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury-News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch among others. She teaches creative nonfiction writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.