Maria Mazziotti Gillan

 

Dream of My Grandmother and Great Grandmother

Daddy, We Called

Sunday Dinners at My Mother's House

In The Movies No One Ever Ages

The Dead Are Not Silent

Daddy ti chiamavamo

Laura, Now That You Are Gone

 

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College and  the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University, SUNY.  She is also the editor of The Paterson Literary Review.  With her daughter Jennifer Gillan, she edited Unsettling America:  An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (Viking/Penguin), Identity Lessons:  Contemporary Writing about Learning to be American (Penguin/Putnam), and Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin/Putnam).  She is the author of seven books of poetry, the most recent being Where I Come From:  Selected and New Poems (Guernica, 1995), Things My Mother Told Me (Guernica, 1999), and Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica, 2002).