Selby Wynn Schwartz (Ph.D., 2005)... was recently awarded the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award for her first novella, A Life in Chameleons (forthcoming 2022), and her debut novel After Sappho will be published by Galley Beggar Press in 2022-2023. Selby's first academic book The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives (University of Michigan Press, 2019), was a Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction, and won the Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society of Theatre Research.