Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (born 1940 Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet.

Life

She grew up in an Italian enclave in Paterson, New Jersey's Riverside neighborhood.^[1]

She graduated from Seton Hall University and from New York University with an MA In Literature. She attended Drew University. She married Dennis Gillan; they have two children, John and Jennifer, and two grandchildren, Caroline and Jackson.^[2]

She is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University -- State University of New York. She is the founder in 1980, and executive director Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.^[3]

Her work has appeared in Borderlands, Connecticut Review, Feminist Studies, Louisiana Review, New Letters, New Myths, Prairie Schooner, US 1 Worsheets, LIPS, TIFERET, Rosebud, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, Paddlefish, Praxilla, What's Your Exit, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Caduceus, Los Angeles Review, Mad Poets Review, Longshot, Voices in Italian Americana, Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability Through Literature, The Edison Review, Rattle, Controlled Burn, The Southeast Review, Sojourner, Solo 5, Many Mountains Moving, Red Brick Review,Borderlands, Poetry Ireland, North Dakota Quarterly, The Texas Poetry Review, Crosscurrents, New Moon Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, New Jersey Poetry Monthly, The Mill Street Forward, Vivace, PolyText, Differentia, Ometeca, Earth's Daughters, The Black Swan Review, The Croton Review, Slow Dancer.

She attended Paterson public schools and is a graduate of Eastside High School. She lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey.^[4]

Awards

• 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers
• 2008 American Book Award

Works

Poetry

• "After School on Ordinary Days"; "Growing Up Italian"; "Daddy, We Called You"; "The Black Bear On My Neighbors Lawn in New Jersey"; "Love Poem to My Husband of Thirty-One Years"; "I Dream of My Grandmother and Great Grandmother"; "Paterson"; "Learning to Love Myself"; "Public School #18"; "Watching the Bridge Collapse"; "How The Dead Return"; "Last Night at the Hampton Inn"; "Sometimes I forget How Fragile the Heart Is"; "On Being Italian"; "Photo of My Sister"; "At Eleven, My Granddaughter Loves to Read"; "The Ghosts in Our Bed"; "Breakfast at the I Hop"; "Your Voice on the Phone Wobbles"; "In Second Grade" "How Do I Pack Up the House of My Life?"; "Couch Buddha"; "Poem to John"; "In My Dream, I see You"; "My Father Always Bought Used Cars"; "My Son Tells Me Not to Wear My Poet's Clothes"

Books of Poetry

• The Weather of Old Seasons, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1989, isbn 9780893044350
• Where I Come From, 1995, Guernica Editions, isbn 9781550710052
• Things My Mother Told Me, Guernica Editions, 1999, isbn 9781550710212
• Italian Women in Black Dresses, Guernica, 2002, isbn 1-55071-156-3
• Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Greatest Hits 1975-2002, Pudding House Publications, April 2003, isbn 1-58998-177-4
• Talismans/Talismani, Ibiskos Editions, 2006, isbn 88-7841-242-2
• All That Lies Between Us, Guernica Editions, 2007, isbn 1-5507-261-2
• What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009, Guernica Editions, 2010, 978-1-55071-304-6

Anthologies

• Garrison Keillor, ed (2006). "After School on Ordinary Days". Good Poems for Hard Times. Penguin Group. ISBN 9780143037675. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ap2kpWhee8cC&pg=PA135&dq=Maria+Mazziotti+Gillan&ei=O53fSpybOI6MNb-M-YsP#v=onepage&q=Maria%20Mazziotti%20Gillan&f=false. 
• Liz Rosenberg, ed (2000). "Oak Place Musings". Light-Gathering Poems. Macmillan. ISBN 9780805062236. http://books.google.com/books?id=jkQsUtP1S5IC&pg=PA27&dq=Maria+Mazziotti+Gillan&ei=O53fSpybOI6MNb-M-YsP#v=onepage&q=Maria%20Mazziotti%20Gillan&f=false. 
• Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino, Justin Vitiello, ed (2003). "Shame and Silence in My Work". Breaking open: reflections on Italian American women's writing. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557532435. http://books.google.com/books?id=Gxezrkd_JR8C&pg=PA153&dq=Maria+Mazziotti+Gillan&ei=O53fSpybOI6MNb-M-YsP#v=onepage&q=Maria%20Mazziotti%20Gillan&f=false. 

Editor

• Italian American Writers on New Jersey, editors Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Edvige Giunta, Rutgers University Press, November 2003
• Identity Lessons, editors Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Penguin Putnam, 1999 isbn 9780140271676
• Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American, editors Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, San Val, Incorporated, 1999 isbn 9780613216524
• Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, editors Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Paw Prints, 2008 isbn 9781439509333

References

1. ^ Donna Gialanella (June 10, 2007). "Maria Mazziotti Gillan". nj.com. http://blog.nj.com/iamnj/2007/06/maria_gillian_sp.html. 
2. ^ http://womenoftheweb.blogspot.com/2007/10/maria-mazziotti-gillan.html
3. ^ http://old.pccc.edu/poetry/goals.htm
4. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/maria_mazziotti_gillan_2

External links

• "Maria Mazziotti Gillan Books", Passaic County Community College Poetry Center
• "Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Poet & Editor Italian American Writers of New Jersey", Italian American Writers
• Sean Thomas Dougherty, ed (2006). Maria Mazziotti Gillan: essays on her works. Guernica. ISBN 9781550712506. 

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Name	Gillan, Maria Mazziotti
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Date of birth	1940
Place of birth	Paterson
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