Renowned Editor Presents Writing Workshops

Mon., Nov 26

***Note: This event was postponed from an earlier date.***

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (right), 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, will present workshops on editing and how to publish on November 26. The workshops will take place in the English Common Room (Engleman D253) from 3:30-4:30 p.m. and 5-7:30 p.m.

Gillan has published 14 books of poetry. Her latest book is The Place I Call Home. She is the founder /executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, N.J., and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She is also director of the creative writing program and professor of poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY. Her books include The Weather of Old Seasons (Cross-Cultural Communications), Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses (Guernica Editions). 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).

Gillan has read her work at colleges, universities, poetry centers, and festivals throughout the United States and internationally. She was named Connecticut State Touring Poet in 2009.

More information on Gillan can be found at  www.mariagillan.com.

For information on the workshops contact Vivian Shipley at Shipleyv1@southernct.edu.