Susan Shapiro

Susan Shapiro, an NYU alum, is an award-winning Manhattan writer and professor known for helping her students get published. She freelances for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Slate, Salon, Wired, Elle, Oprah and The New Yorkeronline. She’s the bestselling author/coauthor of 18 books her family hates including The Forgiveness Tour, Lighting Up, Unhooked, The Bosnia List, American Shield and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, which was recently optioned for a movie. She lives in Greenwich Village with her scriptwriter husband (an NYU Tisch professor) and uses her writing/publishing guides The Book Bible and Byline Bible to teach her popular "instant gratification takes too long" courses at NYU, The New School, Columbia University’s MFA program and in private classes & seminars online. Follow her on Twitter on Instagram at @Profsue123 or email ProfSue123@gmail.com.