Nina Schuyler's first novel, The Painting, (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/2004), was a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. It was also selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the Best Books for 2004 and a "Great Debut from 2004" by the Rocky Mountain News.

Her poems, short stories and essays have appeared in Tumbleweed Review, Oxygen, EM Literary, Watchwordpress, Red Weather: A Journal of Poetry and Culture, Transfer, Sojourn Literary Arts Journal, New Town, Newsday and other publications. She was a finalist in the Lewis "Buddy" Nordan Fiction Contest. Two of her short stories have been nominated for Best New American Voices. Her nonfiction has appeared in Health, Geezerjock, Newsday and Stanford magazine.

She attended Stanford University for her undergraduate degree, earned a law degree at Hastings College of the Law and an MFA in fiction with an emphasis on poetry at San Francisco State University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and is working on a second novel.