Will Evans

Will Evans is an award-winning publisher, writer, translator, bookstore owner, professor, and literary arts advocate. In 2013, he founded Deep Vellum, a nonprofit publishing house and bookstore, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories by underrepresented writers, and cultivating a lifelong love of reading through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts. He has been awarded CLMP's Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing, accepted to the Texas Institute of Letters, named a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture, and knighted by France as a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. He received BA degrees in History and Russian Literature from Emory University, and an MA in Russian Culture from Duke University. His translation of Russian writer Oleg Kashin's novel Fardwor, Russia: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin was published by Restless Books. He teaches courses on Publishing and World Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas and SMU.

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