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  • Helen Schulman

    Professor of Writing

    Email
    schulman@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Helen Schulman

    Profile

    Helen Schulman is the author of the novels Come With Me, This Beautiful Life, A Day At The Beach, P.S., The Revisionist and Out Of Time, and the short story collection Not A Free Show. P.S. was also made into a feature film starring Laura Linney and was written by Helen Schulman and Dylan Kidd. She co-edited, along with Jill Bialosky, the anthology Wanting A Child. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, The New York Times Book Review and The Paris Review.

    Schulman is presently the Fiction Chair of the Creative Writing Program at The New School, where she is a tenured Professor. She also serves as Executive Director for WriteOn NYC, a fellowship program that provides free creative writing instruction to underserved New York City school children.

    Photo credit: Denise Bosco


    Awards And Honors

    2019 Guggenheim Fellow, Aspen Words Fellow, Sundance Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Tennessee Williams Fellow (Columbia University), and Pushcart Prize winner


    Portfolio

    WriteOn NYC


    Current Courses

    Fiction Workshop
    NWRG 5400, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Fiction Workshop
    NWRG 5400, Spring 2024

    Global Citizen Initiative
    NWRW 0003, Summer 2024

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