塞尔温·赛义夫·海因兹（Selwyn Seyfu Hinds）Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is a prolific, award-winning creator and storyteller of all kinds—author, editor, music scribe, comics creator, producer, and screenwriter, to name a few. Selwyn is the creator of Hulu’s Washington Black, an adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s esteemed novel, starring Sterling K Brown and Tom Ellis, among others. Washington Black made its debut to widespread critical acclaim in summer 2025. The New York Times proclaimed it a “defiantly joyful fable.” The San Francisco Chronicle called it, “one of the most ambitious and affecting limited series of the year,” and The Gate deemed the show “compelling and layered…operating on a level of craft that will leave viewers in awe.” Washington Black has been nominated for a slew of honors: NAACP Image Award, GLAAD Media Award, NAMIC Vision, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the ASCP Composers Choice Awards, and a 2026 Emmy. Selwyn was also honored with the Visionary Award from the Caribbean Heritage Organization, and he won the 2026 Humanitas Prize in the Limited Series Teleplay category for the pilot episode of Washington Black. Selwyn’s current TV projects include two shows at Netflix. He’s co-writing a drama inspired by music superstar Usher’s seminal album, Confessions; and producing, with Sterling K Brown, an adaptation of the Percival Everett novel The Trees. Selwyn’s past TV work includes his time on Jordan Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, penning the police brutality episode “Replay,” starring Sanaa Lathan, which made Selwyn a finalist in the Drama Teleplay category for the 2020 Humanitas Prize. Selwyn has also served as a Consulting Producer on HBO Max’s DCU anthology Strange Adventures, and he has developed at HBO with George R.R. Martin. In features, Selwyn is currently writing Diary Of A Mad Band, the story of seminal music group Jodeci for Netflix. His recent slate also includes Legendary Entertainment’s adaptation of the Ronald Wimberly graphic novel, Prince of Cats—a wild mash-up of Shakespeare, hip-hop, and samurai warrior culture; and 1000 Miles, an adaptation of enslaved couple William and Ellen Craft’s true-life tale of extraordinary escape which Selwyn developed for Big Beach Films. He also wrote Arkham, a Gotham City/Joker thriller for DC/Warner Bros. Before Hollywood, Selwyn co-created the Vertigo comic-book series, Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child; and penned two critically hailed books—Gunshots in My Cook-Up on Simon & Schuster, and Random House’s To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road, written with Wynton Marsalis. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of The Source magazine during its late-90s heyday. Selwyn has written for a wide array of major publications, including The New York Times; The Village Voice, where he began his writing career; Vanity Fair; USA Today; Spin and Vibe Magazine. And his essays have been collected in numerous anthologies. Longtime DJ, poet, and sci-fi nerd, Selwyn got cracking on all those journeys as a kid back at Guyana’s Queens College, one of the most storied schools in the Caribbean. Selwyn later attended Princeton University, where he received degrees in English and African American Studies, and where he currently serves on the advisory council for the Lewis Center for the Arts, the umbrella for Princeton’s programs in Creative Writing, Dance, Theater, and Visual Arts。