ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Celebrating Neil Foley to a ‘Tee’
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Becker Gambles Music Concert
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award-winning author & journalist
21 NY press Association Awards
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1ST PLACE COVERAGE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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1ST PLACE SPOT NEWS PHOTO
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1ST PLACE SPORTS FEATURE
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1ST PLACE IN-DEPTH REPORTING
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1ST PLACE COVERAGE OF THE ARTS 1ST PLACE SPOT NEWS
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1ST PLACE HEADLINE WRITING
Awards
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Brookhaven Town’s Office of Women Services for her Outstanding Service to the Community in Communications/Media
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Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts as well as Patchogue Village for community journalism and accolades also from the Greater Patchogue Historical Society
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Of Colors Woman of Diversity Award during Black History Month
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Long Island Women’s Conference for Positive Community Impact Media Award
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Outstanding Advocate for Science and Technology Environmental Writing Award from the Science Museum of Long Island
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Rollstone Foundation Gala honoree with husband Vincent, with 250 attendees, at the Timber Point Country Club in Great River, which raises funds for overseas adoptions of special needs children for their support and community involvement
Recognition
In 2020, Linda Leuzzi received a prestigious Third Place New York Press Association Sharon Fullmer Community Leadership Award for coverage of LGBTQ issues (shared). Linda has been honored to receive several community and industry recognitions, including one from Patchogue Village for her community journalism efforts, the All About Ball event at the Boys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area for her support of its founder, and as a Woman of Diversity during Patchogue ArtSpace’s Of Colors Black History Month.
In 2021, Linda was honored with a 2nd Place Front Page Award for two of her stories, part of a team effort.
Linda also received a Science Museum of Long Island’s Outstanding Advocate for Science and Technology for Environmental Writing Award and accolades from the Greater Patchogue Historical Society for local history stories.
Linda Leuzzi was honored by Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts in 2019 for her many stories on the celebrities who perform as well as the theatre. In the photo with Linda are the other honorees, Long Island Advance publisher Terry Tuthill and BrickHouse Brewery partners Jim McPeak, George Hoag and Tom Keegan. Photo by Walter Petrule.
Linda was also honored by NYS Senator Monica Martinez with a Media Award at the Long Island Women’s Conference for her contributions and positive community impact. Here’s Linda with Senator Martinez.
Current Projects
As previous editor of the Long Island Advance, Linda still reports regularly for LIA as well as the Suffolk County News, the Tide of the Moriches and recently the Fire Island and Great South Bay News. She authored the 20th anniversary book “Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts: 20 Luminous Years of Entertainment Progress.” Linda is a Sayville Rotarian, the recipient of a Paul Harris Award highlighting Sayville Rotarian events, and has hosted seven Rotary exchange students with her husband, Vincent. She an ardent lover of British movies and series, foreign films, Turner Classic Movies, PBS, Broadway & Gateway musicals and Patchogue Theatre concerts, as well as European travel to Paris, London, Prague, Medjugorje and other gorgeous places. Linda’s ebullient enthusiasm for her work, her novel writing process, and the communities she covers is discussed in the promotion of her book, “My Year With the Italian Girl” in the interview with Isabella Rossellini. Linda has a St. John’s University journalism degree and is always thinking of stories walking with her rescue dog Tina.
Linda’s new book, “My Year With the Italian Girl,” is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Buy here.
Continued Projects
As former editor of the Long Island Advance, Tide of the Moriches, Suffolk County News and Islip Bulletin, Linda Leuzzi continues her work as regular contributor and occasional editor. She has mentored, hosted and stayed in touch with several Rotary foreign exchange students as well as young women starting out in the news business.
Linda Leuzzi authored the anniversary edition book, “Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts: 20 Luminous Years of Entertainment Progress,” for Patchogue Theatre.
You can purchase “Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts: 20 Luminous Years of Entertainment Progress” for $30 at PTPA’s box office or online here. All proceeds go to PTPA.
Linda was recently featured on a one-hour Community Interview Zoom meeting the Sayville Library conducted highlighting local residents who have made positive contributions. Linda was featured with Liz Finnegan, as former editors of the Suffolk County News and were asked about the stories they covered that had the most impact. They were interviewed by James Bertsch and Jonathan Pryor
Linda was recently interviewed by film star Isabella Rossellini at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, a standing-room-only event, about her new book, “My Year With the Italian Girl.”
Rotary District 7255 District Governor Sonia Saleh asked Linda to give a talk about her book, “My Year With the Italian Girl,” at the recent Woodloch Resort district conference in Hawley, Pa. Linda’s book was inspired by a Rotary Youth Exchange student she mentored, and she spoke about her experiences with the young woman as well as with other students hosted. Linda discussed the plot of her fiction book, which focuses on small town life, multiculturism, Black history, weekly newspaper work and environmental issues. She received a Paul Harris Fellow Award.
Linda Leuzzi also served on the board of the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society.
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BOOKS
Linda Leuzzi has authored 8 YA non-fiction books and here is her recent fiction book for adults:
“My Year With the Italian Girl,” available on Amazon.
To the Young Environmentalist was chosen as a Talking Book
Life Connections: Pioneers in Ecology received a New York Public Library citation
A Matter of Style: Women in the Fashion Industry received a New York Public Library citation
Celebrity Interviews
Her many celebrity interviews have included Isabella Rossellini, Chazz Palminteri, Bernadette Peters, Joe Piscopo, Sally Struthers, Sara Jean Ford, Melissa Errico, Lou Diamond Phillips, Carolina Herrera, Tony Danza, choreographer Randy Skinner along with many Gateway actors, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Andrea McArdle, Vince Giordano, Keith Lockhart, Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s Albert Mazibuko Branford Marsalas and Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies as well as Nobel Prize and MacArthur Award scientists Patricia Wright and several astronauts.
Linda Leuzzi has rushed to car crashes on Christmas Eve morning, interviewed many celebrities, attended lively and at times contentious village hall meetings, reported on hurricanes as they were whipping up and stomped in the woods covering environmental issues.
Linda Leuzzi Interview with Isabella rossellini
Video courtesy of, Joseph Varsalona. Event hosted by Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society.