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IAWA -BOSTON Presents:

Marisa Labozzetta & Kym Ragusa

Saturday, November 16, 2024 at I Am Books

124 Salem Street, Boston, MA

6-8 PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6; admission is free

Marisa Labozzetta is a John Gardner Fiction Book Award and Best New Fiction Award Finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Shortlist, American Fiction Book, and American Best Book Awards. Kirkus called her latest collection, Men Who Walk in Dreams,  “…An exquisite set of stories steeped in humor, humanity, and grace.” She’s taught Italian American Studies at Smith College and UMASS. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Kym Ragusa is a writer and filmmaker. She is the author of the memoir The Skin Between Us, and her essays have appeared in the anthologies The Milk Of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo. The Italian translation of her memoir, La pelle che ci separa, won the John Fante Prize in 2009. She teaches creative writing at MIT.

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