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Ariel Schrag was born in Berkeley, California. She is the author of the novel Adam, and the graphic memoirs Awkward; Definition; Potential; Likewise; and Part of It. Potential was nominated for an Eisner Award and Likewise was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Adam was made into a feature film directed by Rhys Ernst and produced by James Schamus’s Symbolic Exchange. Schrag wrote the screenplay. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, a Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Directing at Los Angeles Outfest, and was nominated for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Film -- Limited Release. Schrag was a writer for the USA series Dare Me, based on the Megan Abbott novel, the HBO series Vinyl and How To Make It In America, and for the Showtime series The L Word.

Degrees Held

B.A. in English Literature from Columbia University

Recent Publications

Part of It (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018)

Adam (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014)

Likewise (Simon & Schuster 2009)

Potential (Simon & Schuster 2008)

Awkward & Definition (Simon & Schuster 2008)

Stuck in the Middle (Viking 2007)

Research Interests

LGBTQIA, human biology, pen & ink

Awards And Honors

Adam (film) winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival

Adam (film) winner of Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Directing at Los Angeles Outfest

Adam (film) nominated for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Film -- Limited Release

Adam selected for The Morning News Tournament of Books 2015

Adam selected for San Francisco Weekly's Best Books of 2014

Likewise nominated for a Lambda Literary Award 2010

Awkward and Definition selected for American Library Association Rainbow List 2009

Stuck in the Middle selected for New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2008

Potential (comic) nominated for an Eisner Award 1998

Yaddo and Radar Lab fellow 2012