Bettina Baggetta, lives in Las Vegas with her husband of sixty years; she is a proud mother of four, “Nana” – as her many grandchildren call her, “great-Nana” – as her great-grandchildren call her, genealogist and author. 

She loves everything Italian especially her Italian heritage and genealogy, which she has spent decades researching.   Over her lifetime she gathered many family stories from parents, grandparents and anyone who would want to talk to her about Italy and her heritage.  When she and her husband traveled to Italy to visit the country from which their grandparents emigrated and the town in which her father-in-law was born, she interviewed family members still living in the "old country".  

When she retired after many years in a successful career in Management, she started recording these stories for family members and through a successful blog of her Italian ancestry. She was encouraged by family members and blog followers to write a book - this is how her debut novel, PAESANO was born.

She calls herself the “Grandma Moses” of authors, saying she started so late in life to finally put her stories on paper; stories that she has carried, in her mind and heart, ever since she was a little girl – these are her words.