KGB Bar

SUSAN SHAPIRO is the author of Speed Shrinking (out in paperback July 21, 2010), her hilarious fictional debut that became an international phenomenon. She has been featured on The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, LX-TV, Oxygen, E Entertainment, The New York Times, Elle, Glamour, Oprah.com, Salon.com and People.  Her other books include Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, and Only as Good as Your Word.  She lives with her husband, a TV/film writer, in Greenwich Village where she teaches her popular “instant gratification takes too long” writing classes at the New School and NYU. 

KATE ROCKLAND is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Style section and has also written for Playboy, Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, Time Out New York, Spin and the Newark Star-Ledger.  She worked for two years at Rolling Stone, where she followed around freakishly beautiful celebrities with a microphone and was also an assistant editor at Wenner Books.  After a stint in the East Village, she now lives in Hoboken, NJ, with a ridiculously large CD collection.

MELISSA MALAMUT has worked in PR for the NHL and the PGA of America. She was Editor-in-Chief of Touchdown Illustrated magazine and a researcher for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Books. She held a weekly sports beat for Tribune newspapers while simultaneously working as a beauty editor for an upstart fashion magazine. Malamut has been writing sports, beauty, fashion and lifestyle pieces for 10 years.