SUSAN COLL is the author of Word Salad: A Novel (Harper Muse) and seven previous novels, including Real Life & Other Fictions, ak Bookish People. Her novel Acceptance, a satire of the college admissions process, was made into a 2009 television movie starring Joan Cusack and Mae Whitman. Her other books include The Stager, The Literati, Beach Week, Rockville Pike, ak Karlmarx.com. Her work has appeared in publications including Nouvèl Èdikay epi Jounal Washington Post, and online at NPR, the Atlantic, and The Millions. She works at Politics & Prose Bookstore and was president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for five years.
