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.