Susan Shwartz

Susan Shwartz returned from a long sabbatical on Wall Street to her first love, writing fantasy and science fiction. She is a five-time nominee for the Nebula, a two-time nominee for the Hugo, with nominations for the World Fantasy Award, the Philip K. Dick, and the Edgar. In 1993, San Francisco chronicle cited her work for Best Novelette, and in 1996, best Novella with the late Mike Resnick for “Bibi” a 1995 winner of the HOMer award.
Susan has published around thirty books, including anthologies, science fiction, historical fantasy, STAR TREK, and job hunting. She has also published more than 100 short stories, novelettes and novellas and published nonfiction in THE NEW YORK TIMES, VOGUE, THE
WASHINGTON POST, AMAZING, ASIMOV’S, and ANALOG. Moving into work based on art collecting, she is about to publish an article on The Butler Institute for American Art for JOURNEY PLANET. Stories are scheduled for release in the next year or so on subjects as diverse as the Soviet Space Program, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Himalayan-level climbing, and the Battle of the Bulge. She recently sold a story “Achilles in the Underworld” to FlameTree Press. She maintains a SubStack column in which she writes about polemics, semantics, and pop psychology just because.
Susan holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke. She has also studied at Dartmouth College and Oxford University. With her partner, she collects SF art and loves the opera, the theatre, and travel.