She has worked as a newspaper reporter, columnist, editor, travel writer, and is the author of Maternity Ward (William Morrow and St. Martin’s Paperbacks). Impressed? She also wrote the Cliff’s Notes for The Great Gatsby. Susan has a BA in English, and an MA in Textile History/Quilt Studies, both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lives in Portland with her husband, Sam Hochberg, and Frito, a large and elderly black dog named after a character in her favorite (if all-too-prophetic) movie, Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy.”