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Maria Mazziotti Gillan

(MA, New York University, 1963)

tel.: (607) 777-5904
fax.: (607) 777-2408

e-mail: mgillan@binghamton.edu

 


State University of New York • Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Areas of Interest

  • Poetry
  • Multicultural Literature
  • Contemporary Women Poets
  • Working Class Literature

Current Projects

  • Writing Your Way Home (book on writing poetry)

Books and Recent Articles

  • Collected Poems, forthcoming 2008 (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 2008)
  • All That Lies Between Us (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 2007)
  • Talismans/ Talismani, Italian/ English, translated and with an introduction by Elisabetta Marino (Italy: Ibiskos di A. Uliveri, 2006)
  • Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Greatest Hits 1975-2002 (Johnstown, Ohio: Pudding House Publications, 2003)
  • Italian Women in Black Dresses (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 2003)
  • Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, editor (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
  • Things My Mother Told Me (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 1999)
  • Where I Come From: Selected and New Poems (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 1994, 1998)
  • Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Prose About Learning to be American, edited with Jennifer Gillan (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 1999)
  • Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American, edited with Jennifer Gillan (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 1994)
  • Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, edited with Jennifer Gillan (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 1994)
  • The Weather of Old Seasons (New York: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1998)
  • Luce D'Inverno, bilingual edition, New York and Sicity: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1998
  • Takings Back My Name (San Francisco: Malafemmina Press, 1996 reprinted Lincoln Springs Press, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
  • Winter Light (Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1985)
  • Flowers From the Tree of Night (Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1980)

Recent Courses Taught

  • Graduate Poetry Workshop
  • Advanced Undergraduate Poetry Workshop
  • The Poetry of Memory and Place

Awards

  • Firman Houghton Poetry Award, Poetry Club of New England, December, 2001
  • Italian Women In Black Dresses, Honorable Mention, 2000
  • National Poetry Book Award from Salmon Run Press.
  • Things My Mother Told Me, Editor's Choice, Small Press Review, November- December, 1999
  • Growing Up Ethnic In America, Editor's Choice, Booklist, American Library Association, 1999.
  • Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry was designated as an "Outstanding Book for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners" by YALSA/American Library Association for 1999.

 

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