He’s also won awards
for his short fiction, poetry and children’s works,
and has pieces in recent anthologies from Adams Media and
Outrider Press, in various magazines and several short stories
on the web. In the past couple of years, he’s taken
up writing fiction again. In that time, he’s finished
one novel (Noir(ish), an adaptation of one of his
plays) and a 65,000-word story collection called A Recent
History of American Blues, both of which are making
the rounds among publishers and agents; and he’s completed
a dozen other stories as well as the first draft of another
novel.
Evan is a Distinguished Resident Playwright
Emeritus at Chicago Dramatists and a member of the Dramatists
Guild and the Atlanta Writers Club. He and his wife (and
inspiration), healthcare writer and jewelry designer Roxanna
Guilford-Blake, live in the Atlanta area with their two lovable,
dumb-as-dirt doves, Quill and Gabriella.
Evan is avid reader, theatre-goer, listener
to music (he has about 2000 CDS and 1500 LPs, mainly classical
and jazz) and lover of movies, especially old ones. He also
loves to cook and recently started baking. He is a coffeeholic,
abjures sugar and overdoses on pasta.
If he had one wish, it would be to be able
to spend 18 hours a day writing for the next 100,000 years.
If that were granted, he might scratch the surface of all
the things he wants to write. |