(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- New Jersey City University's Center for the Arts and the English Department Student Events and Publications Committee present the Poetry of Memory: A Conversation with Maria Mazziotti Gillan on Tuesday, January 25 at 5:30pm. This is a free virtual event hosted by Edvige Giunta and Kailee Morel.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is 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 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. She has published 23 books, including her latest book, When the Stars Were Visible (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021).
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Edvige Giunta is a Professor English at NJCU. She has published several books, including Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and the coedited anthologies The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Personal Effects: Essays on Teaching, Memoir, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo. Her coedited anthology Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Fire will be published in 2022 by New Village Press.
Kailee Morel is a student at New Jersey City University where she majors in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. She lives in Secaucus, New Jersey. Her passion for reading and writing has flourished over the course of her undergraduate career, but her love for both started when she was in elementary school. She is currently interning as an Assistant Editor with Memoir Magazine and hopes to work in publishing while continuing to write.
