2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers.In 2020 she adheres to the Empathic Movement ( Empathism). She lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and is a professor emeritus at SUNY-Binghamton. Since 2012 she has been in the Honour Committee of Immagine & Poesia, the artistic literary movement founded in Turin, Italy, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas ( Dylan Thomas's daughter). She is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of four anthologies: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin/Putnam) and Italian-American Writers on New Jersey (Rutgers).
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Her craft book, Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories (MiroLand, Guernica) was published in 2013. One of her most recent is The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets (Redux Consortium, 2014), a collection of her poetry and watercolor artwork. Gillan founded Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in 1980, after receiving a grant from the State Council on the Arts, and featured speakers including Allan Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Stanley Kunitz.
She is the founder and executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and is the director of the creative writing program and professor of poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY.
She married Dennis Gillan they have two children, John and Jennifer, and two grandchildren, Caroline and Jackson. program at Drew University from 1977 to 1980. She graduated from Seton Hall University and from New York University with an MA In literature. She attended Paterson public schools and is a graduate of Eastside High School. Maria Mazziotti Gillan was born March 12, 1940, in an Italian enclave in Paterson, New Jersey's Riverside neighborhood. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an American poet. Maria Mazziotti Gillan at the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.
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