Bryan Schwartzman is a journalist, fiction writer, critic, and podcaster. He aims to tell stories with depth and empathy, driven by facts when practicing journalism and by imagination and memory when conjuring fiction. In a turn that would shock his grunge- and metal-loving teenage self, much of his writing relates to Jews and Judaism. He was raised in Queens, NY, one of the most diverse human places on the planet, and his work explores the friction and new possibilities that arise when people of different backgrounds encounter one another.

His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, Judith Magazine, Books N’ Pieces, Jewish Literary Journal, and Jewish Fiction. He sometimes dabbles in poetry, and his work has appeared in Ritualwell. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, Amy, and their two daughters.