Scott Zwiren

Scott Zwiren is the author of the novel God Head that won the Barnes and Nobles debut book award. He has been featured in The Village Voice and the VSA calendar. He is a member of the Bridge Artists Group that has an annual partnership with the Education Department of the Museum of Modern Art as well as annual show at the museum. He has been a nominee for the Gradiva award for poetry through the Bridge Poetry Project. His work is shown at the SORS gallery in Paris, France. After completing the film production program at New York University he fell victim to a terrible bout of bipolar illness that is described in God Head. Although it left him handicapped Zwiren continued to write, draw, and paint. The titles Telling Stories,Seeing Things,and Painting Pictures and other titles are a culmination of twenty-five years of work that went through versions as novels, plays, improvisation, and even music before their completion. As the end of Telling Stories states, "Leaps begin in seeing things not as you imagine them to be." They come by trial and error, the unconscious, and faith, and the end result is seldom what was first envisioned.