Susan Kuchinskas is a journalist and author who writes about science, technology and culture. She's the author of "The Chemistry of Connection: How the oxytocin response can help you find trust, intimacy and love;" and Oxytocin Parenting: From Womb through the Terrible Twos. She also authors Hug the Monkey," a blog about how oxytocin and other neurochemicals affect our daily lives.

She's an organic gardener, backyard beekeeper and kitchen chemist.