Maureen Stanton is the author of Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting and Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood, which Kirkus Reviews dubbed a “compellingly honest coming-of-age memoir.” She has received the Iowa Review prize, a Pushcart Prize, the American Literary Review award in nonfiction, the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, among many other honors. Stanton’s nonfiction can be found in numerous literary journals and anthologies including New England Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Fourth Genre. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.