Maureen Seaton

Background

Books

Solo work

Poetry

• Sweet World. CavanKerry Press, 2019.
• Fisher. Black Lawrence Press, 2018.
• Tit, with Blue Guitar. Dancing Girl Press, 2016.
• Fibonacci Batman: New and Selected Poems . Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013.
• Genetics. Jackleg Press, 2012.
• Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009.
• America Loves Carney. Sow's Ear, 2009.
• Venus Examines Her Breast. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004.
• Little Ice Age. Invisible City Press, 2001.
• Miss Molly Rockin'. Thorngate Road, 1998.
• Furious Cooking. University of Iowa Press, 1996.
• The Sea Among the Cupboards. New Rivers Press, 1992.
• Fear of Subways. The Eighth Mountain Press, 1991.

  Prose

• Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, 2018.

  Co-authored poetry

• Myth America: Poems in Collaboration, by Tres Abuelas y una Mamá. Anhinga Press, 2020.
• Road to the Multiverse. Ravenna Press, 2020.
• Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015.
• Two Thieves & a Liar. Jackleg Press, 2012.
• Sinéad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds. Firewheel Editions, 2011.
• Stealth, Chax Press. 2011.
• Facial Geometry. NeoPepper Press, 2006.
• Little Novels. Pearl Editions, 2002.
• Oyl. Pearl Editions, 2000.
• Exquisite Politics. Tia Chucha Press, 1997.

  Co-http://www.floridabookawards.org/all-winning-titles edited

• Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos. Anhinga, 2018.
• Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Soft Skull Press, 2007.

  Awards and honors

• 2020 RHINO 2020's Editors' Prize.
• 2019
• 2015 The Best Small Fictions
• 2015 Fellow, U.S. National Parks, Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
• 2013 Best American Poetry
• 2011 Sentence Book Award for Sinéad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds
• 2009 Winner, Sow's Ear Chapbook Competition for America Loves Carney
• 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir for Sex Talks to Girls
• 2005 Fellow, The Hermitage, Sarasota Arts Council, Manasota Key, FL
• 2005 Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry for Venus Examines Her Breast
• 2001 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for "Toy Weather"
• 2001 Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
• 1998 Pushcart Prize in Poetry for "LA Dream #2"
• 1998 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for "Confession"
• 1997 Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
• 1997 Best American Poetry
• 1997 Poetry Society of America & Illinois Arts Council, "A Chorus of Horizontals" appeared on Chicago subways and buses as a part of "Poetry in Motion."
• 1997 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for "Genetics"
• 1996 Pushcart Prize in Poetry for "Theories of Illusion"
• 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for Furious Cooking
• 1996 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for "A Chorus of Horizontals"
• 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize for Furious Cooking
• 1995 Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
• 1994 Editors' Prize in Poetry
• 1994 Illinois Arts Council Grant
• 1994 National Endowment of the Arts, Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry
• 1994 Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
• 1993 The Society of Midland Authors Award for The Sea among the Cupboards
• 1993 Fellow, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
• 1992 The Capricorn Award for Poetry for The Sea among the Cupboards
• 1991 McAfee Discovery Award
• 1990 The Eighth Mountain Press Poetry Prize for Fear of Subways
• 1987 Fellow, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming