WOMEN AND FRIENDSHIP

Susan Shapiro Barash is the author of ten previous books, and teaches gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College. As a well recognized gender expert, she is frequently sought out by newspapers, television shows, and radio programs to comment on women’s issues. She lives in New York City. SPOLIGHT. Barbara Laken On a shimmering summer morning in June 2000 I was jolted awake by an urgent knocking at the front door. When I opened it, I faced a thicket of badges and guns. It was the FBI. My first reaction, after shock, was that the gaggle of agents and policemen in my doorway had to have the wrong address. But they didn’t. They were there to arrest my husband. Peggy Moss (SaySomethingNow.com) is the author of two award-winning children's books, Say Something and Our Friendship Rules. She worked as an assistant attorney general in the civil rights unit of the Maine Department of Attorney General and as associate director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence before launching her writing career. Moss continues to work with schools, both as a consultant to organizations and independently, to prevent bullying and teasing. Most recently, Peggy has joined forces with Hardy Girls Healthy Women and many other women’s organizations to create a campaign for all girls. Moss graduated from Princeton University and the Washington College of Law at American University. She received her MFA in creative writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine in July, 2004. She lives with her husband, John Beebe, and their two winsome, audacious, delightful and unpredictable daughters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.