May 01, 2023

An Evening with Maria Mazziotti Gillan



El Gigante presents an evening with Maria Mazziotti Gillan. This virtual poetry reading is supported in part by Poets & Writers and is a Sacramento City College program.

Friday, May 5, 2023, 9:30 pm ET

https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/9348057923
(open mic to follow)


Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding  Community Service in Literature from AWP, 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. She has also received The Clara Lemlich Award for Social Activism (May 2022), and a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts award from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University (March 2020). She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and Professor Emerita in creative writing at Binghamton University—SUNY. She has published 23 books, including her latest book, When the Stars Were Visible (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021).




Maria Mazziotti Gillan's newest poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadowand the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets, a pairing of her poems with her paintings.
Maria's artist website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.

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