Selby Wynn Schwartz

{{short description|American author}}

Selby Wynn Schwartz is an American author.{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Hillary |date=2023-01-25 |title=A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-25/a-novelist-makes-a-beautiful-hash-out-of-pat-feminist-histories-but-somethings-missing |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} {{Cite news |last=Sycamore |first=Mattilda Bernstein |date=2023-01-24 |title=A New History of Modernism: Lesbian, Feminist, Fragmented |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/books/review/selby-wynn-schwartz-after-sappho.html |access-date=2024-08-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

Her book The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives was a finalist for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award.{{Cite web |date=2020-03-10 |title=Here are the finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards! |url=https://lithub.com/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2020-lambda-literary-awards/ |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}

Her book After Sappho was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.{{Cite news |last=Feng |first=Rhoda |date=26 January 2023 |title='After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1150245480/selby-wynn-schwartz-after-sappho |access-date=2024-08-03 |work=NPR}}

In 2024 Schwartz was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.{{cite web |last1=Nietzel |first1=Michael T. |title=American Academy in Rome Announces Winners of the 2024-25 Rome Prize |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/04/25/american-academy-in-rome-announces-winners-of-the-2024-25-rome-prize/ |website=forbes.com |publisher=Forbes}}