![]() Maria was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, attended Paterson public schools and is a graduate of Eastside High School. My father arrived in Paterson, NJ when he was sixteen and went back to Italy to find a wife when he was thirty. They came from two different small villages at the top of a mountain, San Mauro and Galdo. 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). ApHow I Learned What It Means To Be Italian My parents were immigrants from the province of Salerno, Cilento, in southern Italy. 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). ![]() The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and grandchildren. 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). 4.30 20 ratings2 reviews Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life.
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