With Maria Gillan, she has edited Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing Up Ethnic in America. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is founder and executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College and director of the creative writing program at SUNY-Binghamton. Her latest book of poetry is Italian Women in Black Dresses. Edvige Giunta is an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors.