Schulman received her Ph.D. from New York University, and is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. She has taught poetry writing at Princeton, Columbia, Wesleyan, Bennington, and Warren Wilson. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Paris Review, Antaeus, Grand Street, the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, and the Kenyon Review, among other journals. Her essays and translations have appeared widely.