Seth Greenland

Who is Seth Greenland?

Seth Greenland is an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. He has two published novels, Shining City and The Bones as well as four plays. He released a third novel, The Angry Buddhist, in 2012. Much of Greenland's work is set in Los Angeles, where he lives, penning characters dealing with or exposed to the dark underbelly of the city and treated in a tone of black humor.

His first play, Jungle Rot won both the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund For New American Plays Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Award. His work is also recognized in anthologies such as The Otis L. Guernsey Jr. Best Plays of 1994-95, The Devil's Punchbowl: A Cultural and Geographic Map of California Today, and Cape Cod Noir. Greenland's screen credits include writing for the HBO series Arli$ and Big Love. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and one of the site's original bloggers.

Outside of writing, Seth Greenland and his wife, Susan Kaiser Greenland, established InnerKids, the first elementary school curriculum incorporating wellness techniques from the emerging practice known as Mindful Awareness.