What Blooms in Winter

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is 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 (Guernica Editions). 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. She is also Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published sixteen books, including WHAT BLOOMS IN WINTER (NYQ Books, 2016), THE SILENCE IN AN EMPTY HOUSE (NYQ Books, 2013), THE PLACE I CALL HOME (NYQ Books, 2012), What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 (Guernica Editions), and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories (MiroLand, Guernica). With her daughter, Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies.