SUSAN SHAPIRO BARASH has written more than 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 20 years she taught gender studies and Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Her fiction is published under her pen name, Susannah Marren. Follow her at https: //www.instagram.com/susanshapirobarash and https: //www.facebook.com/SusanShapiroBarashasSusannahMarren/.