• Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction from Michigan Quarterly Review in 1982
• Frances Steloff Fiction Prize in 1975
• National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1974 and 1982
• 1998 Nelson Algren Awards "Ping-Pong"
• 2001 Richard Sullivan Award in Short Fiction
• 2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award

• Little-Known Birl of The Inner Eye (after the picture by Morris Graves), Oxford Poetry Vol III No 1 (Winter 1986)
• Through the Dark, Caffine Destiny online
• Royal Harp, The Atlantic, October 2008
• God's Ode to Creation, Verse Daily

Poetry Books

Short Story Books

Novels

Criticism

• A Relative Stranger, Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
• What Keeps Us Here, Ploughshares, Winter 1992-93

Anthologies

Ploughshares

• The Pear Orchard, Ploughshares, , Summer 1972
• The Robber Bridegroom, Ploughshares, , Spring 1975
• Circles, Ploughshares, , Spring 1977
• Bathroom Walls, Ploughshares, Spring 1977
• New Neighbors in the South, Ploughshares, Spring 1977
• Heaven, Ploughshares, Winter 1984
• Attendant Lord, Ploughshares, Winter 1984
• The Cuckoo Clock, Ploughshares, Winter 1984
• Space, Ploughshares, Spring 1985
• March, Ploughshares, Spring 1985
• The Palace, Ploughshares, Fall 1985
• (guest editor), Ploughshares, Spring 1989
• Number Seventeen, Ploughshares, Fall 1991
• The House of Cleopatra, Ploughshares, Spring 1992
• Squash Flowers, Ploughshares, Spring 1997
• Ben Nevis, Ploughshares, Winter 1997-98
• Happiness, Ploughshares, Winter 1997-98
• Milk of Human Kindness, Ploughshares, Fall 2001
• Glass House, Ploughshares, Fall 2001

• All Things Considered, Catherine Bowman, NPR, July 30, 1998

The poet and novelist Maura Stanton's interwoven short stories about growing up in the Midwest trace the awakening of adult consciousness in its unnamed narrator, a strongly moral, sensible girl, resentful of the world's ability to impinge on even the most serene domestic scenes and the complicity of memory in the process: Inside everyone's head, just below their pretty or bored wandering eyes, the strangest and most frightening pictures must be permanently etched.

• Heather Madden, An Interview with Maura Stanton, Merorious 7
• Maura Stanton, Photographs from the American Poetry Review Records, 1971-1998, Ms. Coll. 349