[1][2] He won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2024 "honoring his significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens.

"[6] He attended the University of California, Irvine, where he double-majored in psychology and theater, and was also on the varsity swim team.

[7][8][9] After college, Shusterman worked as an assistant at the Irvin Arthur Associates, a talent agency in Los Angeles, where Lloyd Segan became his agent.

In March 2023, the German translation of the book Roxy, written with his son Jarrod Shusterman, was nominated by the youth jury.

[16] Shusterman has also written for TV, including the Disney Channel Original Movie Pixel Perfect, and episodes of Goosebumps, Animorphs, and R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series.