Susan Goldfein

Susan Goldfein holds a doctorate in Communication Disorders from Teachers College, Columbia University, which, while affording her success as a clinician, teacher, and consultant, has done absolutely nothing to prepare her for creating her books.

Nevertheless, she has plunged into a second career writing humorous essays about life with wit, wisdom, and a touch of irony.

She is pleased and proud to announce that her second book of essays, "How to Complain When There's Nothing to Complain About," released in December, 2018, has garnered three top awards for humor from the independent publishing industry: A Bronze Award from Independent Publishers (IPPY), Winner of the International Book Awards for humor, and the Forward INDIES Book of the Year Award.

Her first book, "How Old Am I in Dog Years," was a winner in the 2016 Delray Beach Library's Authors' Showcase, a Silver Medalist in the 2016 Independent Publishers (IPPY) Book Awards in the humor category, and won the prize for humor in the 2017 NYC Big Book Awards.

Her third essay collection, released in October 2022, is entitled "Laughing My Way Through the Third Stage: Selected essays that skewer the Golden Years." She believes that humor is the only way to deal with the indignities of aging!

Her essays have appeared in the Palm Beach Post, and Hearst newspapers, and have been featured on the Florida Arts Radio Network and the Kravis Center's Showcase The Writing. She is a speaker and author of the blog, Susan's Unfiltered Wit (www.SusansUnfilteredWit.com). She writes a monthly humor column for "Vegas Voice," and "North Palm Beach Life" and is a syndicated columnist with Senior Wire.

Hailing originally from New York City, she currently lives in Florida with her husband, and the world's cutest dog, Sam, a rough-coat Russell Terrier.

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