^ a b c d e f g h "Contemporary Authors Online". New York Press Association Award for feature writing, for articles written on assignment in Poland for Jewish Week. Three Avery Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan, for fiction and nonfiction. Literary Award for Short Fiction, Greensboro Review. My Rosh HaShanah At A Refugee Camp, New York Jewish Week September 2019. Donna Has Left the Building, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette, 2019. The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette, 2014. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette, 2009. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, Warner Books, 2005. She made the keynote presentation entitled “There is No Lightning Bolt" at the TedXZurichWomen on May 29, 2015. Her books have been translated into eleven languages. Gilman's second novel, Donna Has Left the Building, chronicles Donna Koczynski, a wife, mother, former punk rocker, and recovering alcoholic who blows up her own life and takes off on an epic quest across America that ultimately lands her in the middle of a refugee crisis halfway around the globe. It follows the rise and fall of Lillian Dunkle, a Russian immigrant who arrives in America as a child in 1914 and goes on become the doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises over the course of 70 years. The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street is the author's first novel. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven is a true story of the author setting out to backpack across China in 1986 and running into trouble with her friend and Chinese authorities. 
The topics range from growing up with hippy parents, meeting Mick Jagger, getting bullied at school, and moving overseas. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, a New York Times Bestseller is a memoir of the author growing up in New York City. She implores women to get "a life not husband". Kiss My Tiara, Gilman's first book, is a smart-ass reaction to the advice that women are given.
She has been a contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered, " and won literary awards for her journalism, short fiction, and audio book recordings. Times, Salon, the Guardian, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, and Ms. She has written for several newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, the L.A. She received a Masters' in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in 1993. Gilman attended Brown University where she got a B.A. She attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and was a student of Frank McCourt. Gilman was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Photo of Susan Jane Gilman Early life and education
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