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"Marc Palmieri is a masterful storyteller. She Danced with Lightning is a beautifully rendered memoir of a young family in crisis and a marriage challenged on the path to healing. When Anna, Marc and Kristen's infant, experiences seizures, the family embarks on a medical and emotional  odyssey that will require a steadfast love and determination to cope with all that 

lies ahead.  A resplendent story filled with hope. Brava." -Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone

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“An earnest and personal perspective on one family’s medical struggles…Palmieri writes well, using vivid sensory descriptors to immerse readers…He also logically weaves in his own personal story into the narrative…he honestly tells of trying to find himself while also being a caring father.” – Kirkus Reviews

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Interviews, articles, etc:

Mercy University Newsroom (Jun 8. 2022)

See Marc's interview with Adriana Trigiani on Adriana Ink!  (8/2022)

See Marc's panel discussion on Neurosurgical TV, with the world class Weill Cornell neurology team featured in the book (Weill Cornell) (Aug 2022)

See Marc's interview on Fox TV News 8 (Sep 2022)

Parenting Impossible Podcast with Annette Hines (9/2022)

Talk Radio Europe (9/2022)

Festival of Books & Authors, Winston-Salem, NC (Sep 23-24)

Newsday Sunday Feature (Oct 3, 2022)

Leola Ladyland, The Greenroom NYC (Oct 6, 2022)

Kirkus Review (published Oct 19, 2022)

All Saints Church, Bayside NY (Oct 20, 2022)

Rivertowns Express Feature Article (Nov 10, 2022)

Mercy University School of Health & Natural Sciences: Interprofessional Education Panel Discussion: Navigating The U.S. Health Care System (Nov 9, 2022)

Spark of Creativity, Art & Epilepsy (Panelist/Presenter) Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra University, NY (Jan 20, 2023)

Epilepsy Coalition New York Statewide Epilepsy Conference (Keynote Speaker) (2022)

Bayside Live TV interview (January 2023)

Epilepsy Foundation of America New England Maine Conference (March 11), 2034

Winston Salem Journal Feature (April 7, 2023)

Wake Forest University Baseball Epilepsy Awareness Game (April 8, 2023)

EPI: The Chocolate Ball, Rochester NY (Keynote Speaker) (April 29)

Epilepsy Alliance North Carolina The 2023 Arts for Epilepsy Ball, Raleigh NC  (speaker) 

NPR Station WXXI Morning Edition with Beth Adams (April 2023)

NPR Station WFDD Piedmont Interview (May 2023)

Sanctuary Magazine Feature Interview (June 2023)

Fiction Magazine Interview (Oct 2023)

Epilepsy Alliance of America's CARE for Caregivers Event (June 2024)

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