Sam Hurwitt is a freelance arts journalist who writes regularly about theater for Theatre Bay Area and the Marin Independent Journal and has written for American Theatre, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Kichen Sink, Variety, East Bay Express, Austin Chronicle, Pacific Sun, Budapest Sun and other publications. His fiction has been published in Fourteen Hills, The Misfit Library, Defunkt and the Doubleday anthology Voices of the Xiled.