Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Here I Go Again and The Gatekeepers; the nonfiction works Bitter Is the New Black, The Tao of Martha, Such a Pretty Fat, and Bright Lights, Big Ass; and the memoirs Stories I'd Tell in Bars, Jeneration X, My Fair Lazy, Pretty in Plaid, and I Regret Nothing, which was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year. Regularly a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, Jen has sold well over a million books documenting her attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all-sometimes with disastrous results. She's also been seen on the Today show, as well as CBS This Morning, Fox News, NPR's All Things Considered, and The Joy Behar Show, among others. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and her many ill-behaved pets.