Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton (born October 20, 1947 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American LGBTQ poet, activist, and professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of Miami. She is the author of fourteen solo books of poetry, thirteen co-authored books of poetry, and her memoir, "Sex Talks to Girls". Throughout her writing career, Seaton has often collaborated with fellow poets Denise Duhamel, Neil de la Flor, Kristine Snodgrass, and Samuel Ace.
Background.
Seaton received her MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1996. She moved with her family from the Bronx to Chicago in 1992 and taught poetry workshops and served as Artist-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago from 1993-2002, teaching concurrently in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1997-1999. In 2002 she moved to Florida and joined the faculty in creative writing at the University of Miami. She was voted Miami’s Best Poet by the "Miami New Times" in 2020.