Jodie Adams Kirshner is a professor at NYU's Marron Institute. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Financial Times, and elsewhere. Her book Broke won the Tillie Olsen Award, was named a Michigan Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Award. The author of Derailed (The New Press), she lives in New York City.