SETH HURWITZ

"If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?” —Philip Johnson

Seth Hurwitz is a writer, editor, and producer. He wrote, edited and co-produced the cult favorite feature film Swarm of the Snakehead, and was a writer fairly late in the game on the unfairly maligned Blue Omega/Codemasters video game Damnation. With Frank Lama, he co-wrote the interactive movie simulation Blaster for the Army Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee to help prepare Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company Commanders and Team Leaders to operate more effectively in a war zone.

He has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Franklin & Marshall College, earned a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and was a Teaching Fellow in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at The University of Houston. While in Houston, he wrote about art and music for the Houston Press, was a poetry editor of the art and literary journal Gulf Coast, smoked Japanese cigarettes and drank Shiner Bock.

He has taught writing at the University of Houston, Houston Community College, Writers in the Schools and Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth in Los Angeles. He has been proudly and gratefully receptive of Individual Artist Awards for both fiction and poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council.