LORI GOTTLIEB is author of the national bestseller, Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self (Simon & Schuster) and Inside the Cult of Kibu: And Other Tales of the Millennial Gold Rush (Basic Books). Her next book, I LOVE YOU, NICE TO MEET YOU, will be published in May.

A regular commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered," Lori has written for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, People, Elle, Glamour, Redbook, Slate, and Salon, among others. Her personal essays appear in the anthologiesFired (Simon & Schuster, 2006) The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt (Dutton, 2005), Scoot Over, Skinny (Harcourt, 2005) and This Side of Doctoring (Oxford University Press, 2002).