Poet and filmmaker Gloria Monaghan, who holds a master’s degree from Boston College, has published her seventh book of poetry, The Diary of Saint Marion (Lily Poetry Review, 2025). In a review for Cider Press Review, The Diary of Saint Marion is called “a luminous and layered poetry collection that explores memory, loss, faith, and the absurd through a richly cinematic lens.” The review continues: “This balance between reverence and irreverence, past and present, gives the collection its emotional resonance. Monaghan offers not just poems, but a deeply felt spiritual cartography—an invitation to consider what remains sacred in memory, language, and longing.” Monaghan is a professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston and a member of the New England Poetry Club’s advisory board. Her other works include Flawed, The Garden, False Spring, and Hydrangea, among others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Massachusetts Book Award, Griffin Prize, and Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award.