Comings and Goings

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  Now Available!

  A memoir about finding yourself in unexpected places.
  
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• In August 2022 Dina relocated to Berlin, Germany, where she currently lives with her family.

• In November 2021, CNNTravel Chance Encounters featured a story about Dina and her husband and the chance encounter that led to their marriage.

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dina switched hats from writer to editor, working closely with the authors on three books, The Art of Active Allyship, Diversifying Diversity and From Plant to Planet. All inquiries related to editing services can be directed here.

• Coping in Copenhagen

  Listen to Dina’s podcast interview with local Coping in Copenhagen here. CiC, Episode 30, May 10, 2019. Her interview starts at around the 28 minute mark. She talks about her experiences living in Denmark and her book, There’s Some Place Like Home.

• World Book Day Copenhagen

  

  In April 2019, along with nine other authors and writers, including the hilarious and  inspirational Vivienne MckEee , Dina took part in World Book Day–Copenhagen.

• February 2019 Dina finishes her work on her second novel Daughters of Pax

  

• Book Launch January 2019

  In January 2019, Dina launched There’s Some Place Like Home at Books and Company, an independent English language bookshop in Copenhagen to a packed house.

  

• December 2018, There’s Some Place Like Home published on Amazon

  

  A collection of essays about the joys and challenges of living abroad, There’s Some Place Like Home is a “front row seat to the sometimes crazy, sometimes lonely, but never boring life of an expat.”

• In May 2018 Dina finished a working draft of her second novel, Daughters of Pax; a speculative fiction YA novel which tackles gender roles and free will.

  In November 2017, Dina recorded the audio version of  book of the  Become a Viking Mom.

  Dina was interviewed by Staci Layne Wilson for The Instillery about raising feminist sons.

• Hippocamp 2017

  1001 Nights was nominated for a Best of the Net award.

  

  In September 2017,  Dina traveled to the annual Hippocamp Conference for creative non-fiction in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where she gave a reading of her winning essay, 1001 Nights in front of a room full of writers.

• December 2016, 1001 Nights was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

  November 2016 Dina’s novel, All the Spaces in Between, picked up for representation by the Robert Lecker Agency. **

• November 2016, 1001 Nights named the WINNER of Hippocampus creative non-fiction contest.

• November 2015, Unwrapped named a FINALIST of Hippocampus creative non-fiction contest

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  January 2015 Dina finishes work on her first novel, All the Spaces in Between

• September 2012, Wine and Cheese (Doodles) goes live

• December 2011, Dina and family move to Copenhagen, Denmark

  September-October 2008, Dina and family leave New York City for Nicosia Cyprus

• Thanksgiving 1997, a tall dark stranger gate-crashes Dina’s Thanksgiving dinner party and impresses her with his knowledge of Hamlet. The rest is their-story.

• 1990s, Dina graduates from Hunter College with a BA in English/Creative Writing; publishes her first short story and two poems in The Olive Tree Review; is a regular on the Lower East Side spoken word circuit

  1980s, Dina writes bad poetry about unrequited crushes and stories about witches in high school creative writing classes. She’s News Editor of her high school newspaper.

  1976, Ms. D’Allesandro lays out a stack of lined paper and a pencil for anyone who wants to write a story.

**Please note that All the Spaces in Between, as well as Daughters of Pax, are open for representation as of 2023.