Maria was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, attended Paterson public schools and is a graduate of Eastside High School. With her daughter Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin/Putnam) and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey (Rutgers). Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American is written by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Jennifer Gillan and published by Penguin Books (P-US). She has published twelve books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons (Cross-Cultural Communications), and Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica Editions). She is also Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. Her latest book is What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 (Guernica Editions, 2010). She has published twelve books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons (Cross-Cultural Communications), and Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions). Growing Up Ethnic in America Maria Mazziotti Gillan Author Jennifer Gillan Author (1999) Unsettling America Maria Mazziotti Gillan Editor Jennifer Gillan Editor (1994) Italian Women In Black Dresses Maria Mazziotti Gillan. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the director of The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions).
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