Summary: A prize winning nonfiction writer’s account of a troubled adolescence spent immersed in alcohol, drugs, and crime. She is author of "Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood". Her essays and memoirs have been widely. She has an M.F.A. from Ohio State University, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This is her story of how a self destructive girlhood and drug use is overcome and her ultimate success as a writer. Visit her at www.maureenstantonwriter.com
