Meeting Sophia Loren and speaking with her in Italian & receiving a handwritten letter from her!
Featured on Wiki.ezvid.com: 6 Female Authors with Strong Passionate Voices by Sheila O’Neill 8/2020
“The Secret Life of Sofonisba” winner of Reader Views Silver Award for 2021 Historical Fiction
“Eternally Artemisia” winner of Reader Views Gold Award for 2021 Adult Classics Fiction
Dreaming Sophia Winner of Reader Views
2018 Literary Fiction Award FIRST PLACE
Dreaming Sophia & Melissa Muldoon with Reader Views host Sheri Hoyt
Waking Isabella Winner of Reader Views
2019 Literary Fiction Award SECOND PLACE
Waking Isabella & Melissa Muldoon with Reader Views host Sheri Hoyt
Book Presentations in Italy 2018
Rome, Montepulciano, Arezzo
Book Presentation Arezzo Italy 2019
Eternally Artemisia Featured Book
of the Month (April 2019) Women’s Writers
Studentessa Matta Blog
Awarded Best Resource to Learn Italian
Studentessa Matta Blog
Ranked Top 100 Language Lovers Blogs by Bab.La/Lexiophiles
Guest Speaker at the
Italian Institute in San Francisco 2017
Italy Magazine Blogging Awards
2014 Italy Magazine Blogger Awards – Studentessa Matta Blog BEST: Art & Culture Blog AND Awarded the BEST SINGLE POST: ART & Culture
2013 Italy Magazine Blogger Awards – Studentessa Matta Blog was awarded in the Category of “Best Art & Culture Blog”
Voice of Italy 2014
Voice of Italy @I_am_Italy twitter feed (2014) (the rotation curation Twitter project for Italy). February 9-16 2014 – Week 58: Mattia project coordinator writes: “Melissa, I have to say it was a really interesting week! I liked the variety of your comments! The week has come to an end, but this does not mean the end of the collaboration, you can continue interacting with the page, the project and spreading the word! We’ll continue following you @italiamelissa, for sure! Do the same, folks!
Interviews with Melissa
Radio Interview with Cher Hale about how Melissa went Matta for Italian
Radio Interview with Cher Hale about how Melissa went Matta for Italian
Eternally Artemisia & Melissa Muldoon with Reader Views host Sheri Hoyt
Waking Isabella & Melissa Muldoonwith Reader Views host Sheri Hoyt
Dreaming Sophia & Melissa Muldoon with Reader Views host Sheri Hoyt
Interview for INSPIRERY (2015) Melissa Muldoon – Chief Creative for Studentessa Matta Language Learning
Interview for IdeaMensch (2015) Melissa Muldoon – La Studentessa Matta