Susan Shapiro, a Manhattan journalism professor, has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Newsweek, The Nation, Salon, Tin House, Daily Beast, The Village Voice, People, Psychology Today, More & Marie Claire. She's editor of Food for the Soul, author of the comic novels Overexposed and Speed Shrinking, and the nonfiction books Only as Good as Your Word, Lighting Up, Secrets of a Fix-Up Fanatic, the upcoming Unhooked, and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, currently being made into a movie. She lives with her husband, a TV/film writer, in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her popular "instant gratification takes too long" writing method at the New School, NYU and in private workshops. She can be reached at ProfSue123@aol.com.