Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.
Books in order of publication:
| The Sophie Horowitz Story | 1984 |
| Girls, Visions and Everything | 1986 |
| After Delores | 1988 |
| People in Trouble | 1990 |
| Empathy | 1992 |
| My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years | 1994 |
| Rat Bohemia | 1995 |
| Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America | 1998 |
| Shimmer | 1998 |
| The Child | 2007 |
| Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences | 2009 |
| The Mere Future | 2009 |
| The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination | 2012 |
| Israel/Palestine and the Queer International | 2012 |
| Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair | 2016 |
| The Cosmopolitans | 2016 |
| Maggie Terry | 2018 |
