Fran Schumer’s poetry, fiction, and articles have appeared in various sections of The New York Times, including Op Ed, Book Review and Sunday Magazine; also, Vogue, The Nation, The North American Review, and other publications. 

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She won a Goodman Loan Grant Award for Fiction from the City University of New York and in 2021, a Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing poetry fellowship. In 2022, her poem, Memento Mori, was a winner of the Martha’s Vineyard Poet Laureate’s 2022 Contest. Her Chapbook, Weight, was the first runner up in the Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest and was published in 2022 by Choeofpleirn Press. She wrote the Underground Gourmet column for New York Magazine and was a columnist and restaurant reviewer for the New Jersey section of the New York Times. She is the writer of the New York Times bestselling Powerplay (Simon and Schuster) and author of Most Likely to Succeed (Random House).

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A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., she attended New York City public schools. She earned her B.A. magna cum laude at Harvard University, where she studied political theory, but wishes she spent more time reading Keats. She lives and teaches on Martha’s Vineyard and in New Jersey.