SUSAN SHAPIRO BARASH
pen name SUSANNAH MARREN
Susan Shapiro Barash has written over a dozen nonfiction books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, You’re Grounded Forever, But First Let’s Go Shopping and Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships. For more than twenty years she taught gender studies in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught creative nonfiction at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. For her fiction, Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, A Palm Beach Scandal, and Maribelle’s Shadow, she writes as Susannah Marren.
She has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Marie Claire, and has appeared on national television including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. She has been a guest on national radio including NPR and Sirius Radio. Speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way, Kravis Center and the Society of the Four Arts.
In 2021 Susan received the New York State Assembly Member’s Exceptional Leadership Award, presented by Assembly Woman Rebecca Seawright. The following year, she won the 2022 Firebird Book Award for her novel A Palm Beach Wife.
She has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, as a judge for the International Emmys and as Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government, Harvard. She belongs to Greenwich Pen Women (Pen Women America), NYWIFT, the Authors Guild and ASJA.
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Susan is available to speak on a variety of topics. Visit the Contact page to get in touch with her speaking bureau.
