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Selby Wynn Schwartz

Selby Wynn Schwartz

Selby Wynn Schwartz Biography

Selby Wynn Schwartz holds a PhD in comparative literature (Italian/French) from the University of California, Berkeley and currently teaches writing at Stanford University.. She is the author of The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; the novella A Life in Chameleons; and the novel After Sappho.



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