title: From Brooklyn and Back Again: A Memoir
author:  Lisa Racioppo 
description: Lisa Racioppo is a newly licensed Registered Nurse (RN) after embarking on a journey with major life changes, while in search for a better life. It all comes down to telling a good story. She has spent the last 20 plus years telling stories through working at advertising agencies as an Executive and now, on her own. She is currently busy working on the sequel to "From Brooklyn and Back Again" called, "Second Time Around." A native of Park Slope, Brooklyn, Lisa now lives in New Jersey with her two boys, Drew age 15 and Josh age 12.
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  **Lisa Dickenson** is the pseudonym for Beyoncé. OK, FINE, THAT’S NOT TRUE.
  
  Lisa lives by the Devon seaside, stuffing cream teas in the gobs of anyone who
  comes to visit, and writing stuff down that she hopes is funny. Her first
  novel was the copyright-infringing _Sweet Valley Twins: The Twins Holiday
  Horror_ , which she wrote in primary school and gave up on after five pages.
  Twenty-ish years later Lisa went on to be a *real author* and wrote the
  Novelicious Debut of the Year, _The Twelve Dates of Christmas_. In summer 2016
  out popped _You Had Me at Merlot_. She’s now keeping her fingers crossed that
  everyone will like her third paperback, _Mistletoe on 34th Street_ , and that
  New York City gives her a free apartment near Central Park as a ‘well done’.
  
  Follow Lisa online for all her book news and Beyoncé-obsessing:
  
  [www.lisadickenson.com](http://www.lisadickenson.com)
  
  Twitter [@LisaWritesStuff](https://twitter.com/LisaWritesStuff)
  
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