Susanna Fogel is a Rhode Island native and apologist. She writes and directs films and television, including the comedy feature Life Partners and the ABC television series Chasing Life. She is an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and Time Magazine. She lives in New York and Los Angeles. And she has bangs, obviously. Nuclear Family is Susanna's first novel.