Autor/-in: Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ. She is also a Professor and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University-State University of New York. She has published fourteen books of poetry, including THE WEATHER OF OLD SEASONS (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1993) WHAT WE PASS ON (Guernica Editions, 2010), and THE PLACE I CALL HOME (NYQ Books, 2012). With her daughter, she is co-editor of three anthologies published by Penguin/Putnam. She is also the editor of the award-winning Paterson Literary Review. Among her many honors, she received the 2011 Barnes and Noble Writers For Writers Award.