Are you interested in knowing how novelists get their inspiration and write books that become best sellers and award winners? Do you have a story waiting to be written into a book? Join Marisa Labozzetta and me on Wednesday, October 2nd, from 10 to 11 A.M. Central Time U.S. Our conversation will be about her remarkable life journey and her latest novel, Men Who Walk in Dreams.

Marisa Labozzetta was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. As a teaching fellow in the Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University, she received a Master of Science degree and completed her doctoral coursework.

Marisa published her first piece in The Washington Star. She won first prize in the Rio Grande  Writers´ Fiction contest. She was a finalist in Playboy´s Victoria Chen Haider Memorial Literary Award for Fiction and the New Letters Literary Awards.

Marisa went on to publish stories in the best-selling When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, The American Voice, Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories About Sports, The Pegasus Review, VIA, KnitLit, Dont Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing, Paradise, Our Mothers Our Selves, Beliefnet.com, Italian Americana, Perigee, and American Fiction, among others.

In 1999, Marisa released her first novel, Stay With Me, Lella. She received a Pushcart Prize for her At the Copa collection in 2006. "Forecast for a Sunny Day," from that collection, won the Watchung Arts Center Award for Short Fiction in 2010. Her 2013 novel, Sometimes It Snows in America, was an Eric Hoffer Award Finalist. Her last novel, A Day in June, won the Best Book and American Fiction Awards. Her latest novel, Men Who Walk in Dreams, was a New Millennium Writings Fiction Award Finalist.