Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.
The Heirs to Byzantium novels are set in a world where Marc Antony defeats Octavius in the Battle of Actium, and joins with Cleopatra to make Byzantium capital of the Roman Empire.
It also features a sympathetic version of Kundry from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal; Shwart's Kundry is depicted as a version of the Wandering Jew.
[1] Shwartz has published several novels and sixty short stories.
She has also collaborated with science fiction writer (and fellow Mount Holyoke alumna) Judith Tarr on the following works: All co-written with Josepha Sherman