Regina’s memoir, ETCHED IN SAND, appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers lists for 16 weeks during 2013-14 rising to #2 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s Non-Fiction E-Books Best Sellers list and #6 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Combined Print & E-Books list. It also was been selected for One Book/One College reads and integrated into college and high school curriculums.

For the past 26 years Regina has spent her policy, managerial and legal career in both the private and public sector. She is presently an attorney working for the State of New York.

Prior to her state appointment, Regina served as Chief Deputy to the Suffolk County Executive where she managed a county of over 1.6 million residents, a $2.7 billion annual budget and a 9,500-employee workforce. During her tenure she managed the county’s fiscal crisis and oversaw the county’s day-to-day operations and its immediate response and recovery to Superstorm Sandy.

The majority of Regina’s private sector experience was as a partner to Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, an internationally recognized securities litigation firm where she represented defrauded public and labor pension funds from those who committed corporate fraud on Wall Street.

She proudly serves as board vice president to You Gotta Believe, an organization that works towards finding older foster children forever homes.

Books by Regina Calcaterra

Girl Unbroken: A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from the Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho

by Regina Calcaterra and Rosie Maloney - Memoir, Nonfiction

They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet, through it all, they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker, she is separated from her younger siblings, Norman and Rosie. And as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care, the one thing worse than being abandoned by her mother is living in Cookie’s presence. Beaten physically, abused emotionally, and forced to labor at the farm where Cookie settles in Idaho, Rosie refuses to give in.

Etched in Sand

by Regina Calcaterra

Over three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and glowing critical praise. Her latest novel,CONSTANCE , is a powerful story of a woman's anguished reckoning with her past.