Mary GillilandMary Gilliland began life in Philadelphia and after college apprenticed to Gary Snyder in the Sierra foothills where she studied Buddhism and helped to build a wood-framed public school. Her poetry has been anthologized most recently in Nuclear Ipact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands and the multimedia Strange Histories: A Bizarre Collaboration. She is not afraid of delight, neither does she shirk the hard tasks of anger, pain, and deep caring, said Mary Oliver about her letterpress collection Gathering Fire. A featured reader at the Al Jazeera International Film Festival, Gilliland has held the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a Council on the Arts Faculty Grant at Cornell University. Read More Read Less