Dana Schwartz is the creator and host of the number one-charting podcast Noble Blood, produced by iHeartRadio, in which she tells the lesser-known stories of royals throughout history. She is also the host of the iHeartRadio original podcast Haileywood, about Bruce Willis’s attempt to become a real-estate mogul in a small town in Idaho in the 1990’s, and a frequent co-host on the Crooked Media podcast, Hysteria.
Dana is the author of five books, including the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie bestseller Anatomy: A Love Story, and its sequel, Immortality: A Love Story. She has also written the memoir Choose Your Own Disaster and the humor book, The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon, based on her viral parody Twitter account @GuyInYourMFA. Anatomy: A Love Story was the Winter YA pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Her books have been published in over 20 countries and translated into more than a dozen languages.
As a journalist, Dana has written for Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, GQ, Vanity Fair, Bustle, and more. Dana lives in Los Angeles with her fiancé and their cats, Eddie and Beetlejuice.
“Dana’s whole talk felt personal, intimate and perfectly tailored to our target TeenFest demographic. She’s super personable and this made the flow of the event go so seamlessly. I would book her for another author talk again tomorrow if I could.”— OC Libraries, 2022
