One of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards winners is Maria Mazziotti Gillan
. The Writers for Writers Award recognizes authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.Maria Mazziotti Gillan, a Paterson native and award-winning poet, has been the executive director of the The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College since it was established in 1980.
Over the years, the Poetry Center has been accorded international recognition for many of its activities, including the Distinguished Poets Series, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Paterson Fiction Prize, and the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People. The annual Paterson Literary Review, the monthly New Jersey Poetry Calendar and the New Jersey Poetry Resource Book are also published by the Poetry Center.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan has promoted literature in Paterson, NJ, for more than thirty years. As the executive director of the Poetry Center and the founding editor of the Paterson Literary Review, she also coordinated readings and workshops in public schools, as well as for adults and senior citizens. Through POETRYWORKS/USA she created a cable television program to highlight poetry and fiction by regional and national poets and writers.
She directs the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University-State University of New York, where she is Professor of Poetry. She has published twelve books of poetry, including All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions, 2007) which won the American Book Award. Her most recent book is What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 (Guernica Editions, 2010).
Also receiving a Writers for Writers award at the event were John Grisham
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