Awards & Honors, Pomp & Circumstance!

Meeting Sophia Loren and speaking with her in Italian & receiving a handwritten letter from her!

Meeting Sophia
Sophia’s Letter

Dreaming Sophia
Winner of Reader Views
2018 Literary Fiction
Award FIRST PLACE

Waking Isabella
Winner of Reader Views
2019 Literary Fiction Award SECOND PLACE

Eternally Artemisia Featured Book
of the Month (April 2019) Women’s Writers

Book Presentations in Italy 2018
Rome, Montepulciano, Arezzo

Book Presentation Arezzo Italy 2019

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 was shortlisted in the Category 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!