Laurie Gwen Shapiro is a native Manhattanite. Her resume includes time as a sex call screener for Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and as Peter Jennings's assistant at a publishing company. She now works full-time writing fiction and screenplays and coproducing independent films, including "The McCourts of Limerick" and "Once When I Was a Cannibal". She's currently writing the screenplay for "The Unexpected Salami" which has been optioned for a film by Radical Media.