Susan Shapiro is an American author of nine books including Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Only as Good as Your Word, Lighting Up, Speed Shrinking, Overexposed, Unhooked, and The Bosnia List.She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, The Daily Beast, Salon.com, Glamour and Marie Claire magazines.Shapiro is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and has been an award winning writing professor at The New School and New York University since 1993.She is married to TV/film writer Charlie Rubin.