Marisa Labozzetta is the author of the novel, Stay With Me, Lella (Guernica 1999), and a collection of linked stories, Thieves Never Steal in the Rain. She was a finalist for the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee for her collection of short stories, At the Copa (Guernica 2006). Her work has appeared in The American Voice, Beliefnet.com, The Florida Review, The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing, Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories About Sports, and the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, among other publications. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.