Evan J

Living between so-called Victoria and Prince George, BC, Evan J (he/they) primarily spends time as a writer. He is the author of Ripping down half the trees, a PhD student at UNBC, an installation artist, and a passionate birder. In past lives, Evan was the programming coordinator for the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, the manager of the Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council's DOI2T tech literacy program in Northern Ontario, the fiction editor for Cloud Lake Literary journal in Thunder Bay, a writing teacher with Vallum's Poetry for Our Future! program, an assistant editor at Brick, a hunting guide, a high school teacher, and an ultra-marathon runner. Evan is also an alumna of the Vermont Studio Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference. In 2024, Evan ran 484 km across Manitoba in 7 days. Evan cares deeply about diction, trans rights, and ecological justice.