Selby Wynn Schwartz

Selby Wynn Schwartz is the author of After Sappho, published by Galley Beggar Press, which was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and shortlisted for both the 2023 Orwell Prize in Political Fiction and the 2023 James Tait Black Prize in Fiction. Her first book, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives, was published by University of Michigan Press and received the 2020 Sally Banes Prize from the American Society of Theatre Research. Her novella A Life in Chameleons won the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Italian/French) from UC Berkeley.