SUSAN SHAPIRO is a popular writing professor at The New School, NYU and Columbia University. She’s the bestselling author/coauthor of 12 books her family hates, including Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart and the award-winning writing guide The Byline Bible. Her work appears in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, The Atlantic, Elle, Oprah.com, Marie Claire, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, Publishers Weekly, The Forward and Tablet. She’s promoted her books on The Today Show, CBS Morning Show, CNN, LX-TV, Fox-TV, radio shows like Howard Stern’s Wrap-Up on SiriusXM and such podcasts as Writing Class Radio, Write About Now, and Moms Don’t Have Time to Read. She lives with her husband, a scriptwriter and NYU Professor in Greenwich Village. Her website is www.susanshapiro.net