Moshe Schulman

Founder & President

Founded in 2018, Schulman PR Inc. is a boutique public relations firm focusing in book publishing, with a specialization in non-fiction/memoir campaigns and a particular expertise in assisting writers, agents, and publishers edit and place essays and op-eds. 

Founder and President Moshe Schulman’s diverse professional background informs all publicity campaigns. His strong media contacts from over fifteen years in the hospitality, film, and publishing industries help secure top-tier media. Before founding Schulman PR Inc., Moshe worked for a variety of literary PR firms in New York City and was also the director of marketing and publicity for a hospitality group in Manhattan where he secured over 150 media placements. 

Moshe Schulman has worked on national bestsellers like AJ Mendez Brooks’ Crazy Is My Superpower (Crown) and Salt in My Soul (Random House); with award-winning authors Bram Presser (National Jewish Book Award Winner), Alicia Jo Rabins (Honickman First Book Award from the American Poetry Review); and debut authors like Ann Shoket (former Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen Magazine), Benjamin Valenta (FOX Sports SVP), Dr. David Weill (former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and the Lung Transplant Program at Stanford), among many others.  

Schulman PR Inc publicity campaigns have landed authors national coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, NPR, Oprah Daily, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Good Morning America, The Joe Rogan Podcast, WTF w/ Marc Maron, SiriusXM, and hundreds of other sought-after print, digital, TV, radio, and podcast outlets. We have also helped shape, edit, and place more than 60 personal essays and op-eds in top-tier publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TODAY, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The New York Times’ Modern Love column, Salon, HuffPo, TIME, Oprah Daily, LitHub, USA Today, Tablet, STAT, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, ThinkNBC, Directors & Boards, Fortune, and elsewhere. 

Schulman holds a BFA in Screenwriting and Directing from School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is also an essayist and opinion writer, having published in outlets like The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour. He is also the recipient of literary grants from Tin House, Squaw Valley, and Bread Loaf. He recently completed a memoir about his experience leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, N.Y. Learn more here.  

Leslie Gauthier

Senior Publicist & Editor

Leslie has been working for SchulmanPR as a publicist and editor since 2018. Work she’s edited has appeared in The New York Times Opinion and Modern Love, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Literary Hub, Electric Lit, Huffington Post, Slate, among others. She’s helped clients appear on Bloomberg News, Factually with Adam Konover, NPR, and earn reviews and attention from Harper’s Bazaar, TeenVogue, Wall Street Journal, Locus Magazine, The Times LIterary Supplement, among others. Leslie has an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College where she recently earned the Rona Jaffe Fellowship for Creative Writing and Himan Brown Award. Her own prose has appeared in Modern Love and Paste Magazine. She’s always proud and eager to amplify other writers’ voices by editing, strategizing, pitching, and ultimately getting writers the attention they deserve.

Justine Kay

Publicity Intern

A native of the French Riviera, Justine Kay grew up surrounded by the sound  of waves and cicadas. She majored in English and history at Aix-Marseille  University, graduating in 2015. While studying at the University of Bristol,  England, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the university  choir. Following her studies, she worked as a journalist intern for Guerres &  Histoire, where several of her articles were published.  

Expanding her career internationally, Justine pursued a Publishing Certificate  from Columbia University, deepening her expertise in the publishing industry.  Her professional journey has spanned France, the UK, and Canada, where she  worked as a film production coordinator. With a rich international background  and specialized training in publishing, Justine is passionate about supporting  début authors and expanding compelling narratives to diverse audiences. An  avid reader, she is particularly drawn to historical fiction about trailblazing  women and the transformative worlds of magical realism. She currently lives in  Manhattan with her husband and their two quirky cats.