SUZANNE GUILLETTE grew up in southeastern Massachusetts, where she remembers sledding on oceanside sand dunes in the winter and watching thunderstorms on the beach in the summer. Although she now lives in New York City, she still manages to spend a decent amount of time in or near the water.

A writer and occasional storyteller, Suzanne’s work has appeared in Tin House, Self, Publisher’s Weekly, and Time Out New York, in addition to other publications. Suzanne teaches autobiography and memoir-writing; she is very grateful to the New York Writer’s Coalition, for its inspiring work in the NYC-area and its accessible, brilliant methodology, from which she has learned so much.

Her first book, Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment, chronicles a year that Suzanne spent collecting embarrassing stories from strangers on the streets of Manhattan, which, not incidentally, happened to be the year before she turned thirty. After a heated fling with her literary agent morphs into unexpected heartbreak, Suzanne’s life, every so slowly begins to unravel, bringing her to the eventual realization that the person she should really be querying about shame is herself.

When she’s not writing or reading, Suzanne pursues dance, which has been a lifelong love. She also enjoys yoga, travel, the company of loved ones and cheese.

To learn more, please visit her at www.suzanneguillette.com.