Susan Lern­er prac­ticed law teach­es writ­ing is an author and in her spare time gets out of her com­fort zone by per­form­ing com­e­dy improv. She has writ­ten non-fic­tion includ­ing fam­i­ly and busi­ness his­to­ries (spe­cial­iz­ing in immi­grant sto­ries). Her fic­tion includes short sto­ries, sev­er­al of which were includ­ed in lit­er­ary mag­a­zines. Her first nov­el, A Suit­able Hus­band, set in pre-war Poland amidst the Zion­ist youth groups of the peri­od. Her first nov­el A Suit­able Hus­band explores the polit­i­cal youth groups in pre­war Poland through the expe­ri­ences of a young Jew­ish woman caught between the pres­sures of her tra­di­tion­al par­ents and those of her rad­i­cal polit­i­cal group. She also believes in the val­ue of jour­nal­ing both for remem­ber­ing the many remark­able things that hap­pen every day as well as for the health ben­e­fits of focus­ing on the fun­ny enter­tain­ing or enchant­i­ng events that occur in our dai­ly lives. When she found too many peo­ple had excus­es for not keep­ing a record of their fam­i­ly sto­ries she wrote a short how-to book called The Jour­nal Project: Cap­tur­ing the Mag­ic of Fam­i­ly Life through Sto­ries. Susan lives near New York City with her hus­band and spends win­ter vaca­tions in South Flori­da. Her grown son has great tal­ent as a writer but pur­sued com­put­er sci­ence instead. Go figure.