Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a contemporary writer. She grew up in Brooklyn and holds a BA from Barnard College, an MA from Bryn Mawr, and stated work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in myriad universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres—from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, and even to translation from Italian.