During an onstage interview[1] with Margaret Atwood, Schultz described how her own family settled in Canada from Michigan in the early 1970s when her father deserted the U.S. Army at the height of the Vietnam War.

[6] Her novel The Blondes was published by St. Martin's Press in 2015[7] and listed as a Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus,[8] BookPage,[9] and NPR, who described it as "scary and deeply, bitingly funny — a satire about gender that kept me reading until 4 in the morning — and a fine addition to the all-too-small genre of feminist horror.

"[10] In May 2017 it was announced that The Blondes would be developed as an original series for AMC Networks' Shudder with Schultz writing along with her husband, video director Brian Joseph Davis.

[11] When Schultz regained the rights in 2019, she and Davis produced[12] a scripted podcast adaptation starring Madeline Zima and Rob Belushi.

[13] Set in 2008 and flashing back to the grunge-era 1990s, Little Threats is "a literary suspense about the new questions and old tragedies that surface after a young woman who pleaded guilty to her best friend's murder is released from prison.