Hello! My name is Isabella Vassallo, and I’m interning for Literary Mama this spring. I am from Rocky Hill, Connecticut and am currently a student at and on track to graduate this spring from Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. I am majoring in English with a minor in Writing and Publishing. I am […]
As a child, I was fond of telling dramatic stories. In fourth grade, I wrote a one-act play called “Tornado.” Four sisters lost both parents in a devastating natural disaster and were dispersed around the country only to meet up in their 20s at a Broadway audition. I directed, produced, and starred in this basement […]
Popcorn led me to Literary Mama. The story begins in an elementary school cafeteria. My husband and I volunteered to pop popcorn for the annual sock hop at my son’s school. While wearing plastic gloves and stuffing popcorn into red and white paper bags, I met another mom there volunteering — Christina Consolino, a former […]
My dream to be a published author developed at nine years old when I devoured one Babysitter’s Club book after another. I wanted to create my own characters and stories and let them live dramatic lives underneath beautiful book covers. Now in my early 30s, I’m still aspiring to that “published” part – in the […]
I have, technically, been a writer my entire life. A diary when I was a kid. Terrible poetry in middle school. Short stories in college that managed to find a home in the school’s literary journal. And then I became an English teacher and taught young people to write. When I left full-time teaching and […]
I have always loved to write. As soon as I could hold a pencil, I wrote stories about my stuffed animals, and read them out loud. I self-published my first book in second grade, as a class assignment, to introduce myself to the class. Made of sturdy cardstock wrapped in blue contact paper with little […]