SARAH SCHULMAN, American playwright and author, born in New York. Her books include: People In Trouble, describing the lives of AIDS activists; Empathy, My American History (1994), Rat Bohemia (1995), Shimmer (), Girls, visions and everything: a novel (1999) Truly her output is too much to catalogue here. She is the very definition of prolific. Her 2009 work was the acclaimed Ties that Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. Let the Record Show: A Political History of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power New York (ACT UP, New York 1987–1993) was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2021, and was a finalist for both the 2019 and 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Works-In-Progress.

Schulman is a Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), the College of Staten Island and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.