Maria Mazziotti Gillan Biography

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an American poet.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan was born March 12, 1940 in an Italian enclave in Paterson, New Jersey's Riverside neighborhood.
She attended Paterson public schools and is a graduate of Eastside High School.
She graduated from Seton Hall University and from New York University with an MA In Literature. She enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Drew University from 1977-1980.She married Dennis Gillan; they have two children, John and Jennifer, and two grandchildren, Caroline and Jackson.
She is the Founder /Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review, and is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY.