Selby Wynn Schwartz is an American author.
She has worked as a dance scholar at Stanford University, focusing on female and transgender performance.
Her book The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives was a finalist for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award.
Her historical fiction novel After Sappho was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.Briefly reviewed in the February 13&20, 2023 issue of The New Yorker, p.85.
In 2024 Schwartz was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. References