About the Author

SUSAN SHAPIRO BARASH has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, Toxic Friends, and You're Grounded Forever, But First Let's Go Shopping. For more than twenty years she has taught gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Her fiction, Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, and A Palm Beach Scandal are published under her pseudonym, Susannah Marren.