SELBY WYNN SCHWARTZ holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and the forthcoming novella, A Life in Chameleons.

In 2022, Galley Beggar Press published Selby’s first novel, After Sappho. After Sappho was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the 2023 James Tait Black Prize and the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.