{"id":450,"date":"2020-09-22T05:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marygilliland.com\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:47:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marygilliland.com\/?page_id=450","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bio<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Mary Gilliland aims to charm, alarm, and galvanize her listeners and readers. She has published seven collections of poetry including the award-winning The Devil\u2019s Fools<\/i> and, most recently, Within the Shop of the Divine<\/i>. Honors include multimedia poetry at the National Women\u2019s Hall of Fame, a Stanley Kunitz Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the International Literary Seminars Kenya\/Fence<\/i> 1st Prize in Poetry, and a Council on the Arts Faculty Grant from Cornell University, where she designed and taught interdisciplinary writing courses such as \u2018Ecosystems & Ego Systems\u2019 and \u2018America Dreaming.\u2019 Her poems are widely published in print and online literary journals and most recently anthologized in Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, & Choice; Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose; and Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms In Our Hands. In her life and work she values ecology, equality, justice, peace.<\/p>\n

\"LightBorn in Philadelphia, Mary Gilliland was raised in the incipient New Jersey suburbs. After college, she and her husband-to-be Peter Fortunato apprenticed with Gary Snyder, studying carpentry, ecology, and the great Zen texts while living off-grid on San Juan Ridge and earning money in Bay Area construction during the winter. Back East at Cornell she developed a decentralized walk-in writing service for students, staff, and faculty. Gilliland has also taught at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and the Chautauqua Institute, traveled in Oman, Iceland, Egypt, Italy, Greece. She has helped build labyrinths and standing stone circles and been a board member of The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Light On The Hill Retreat Center, and Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, the Dalai Lama\u2019s seat in North America. Mary retired early from Cornell in order to devote herself to poetry.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk! Contact form<\/span><\/a> for questions, invitations, requests.<\/p>\n

Mary Gilliland\u2019s work has been supported through the generosity of the Fine Arts Work Center; Millay Arts; MacDowell; Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers; the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation; the Djerassi Foundation; The Studios at MASS MoCA; and Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, set high on a cliff at the very edge of Western Europe.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Awards<\/div>
2023 International Literary Seminars Kenya \/ Fence 1st Prize in Poetry<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/a>
2022 CNY Book Award for Poetry<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>
2021 Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/a>
2019 Bright Hill Press Poetry Award<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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