Danielle Evans

Award-Winning Author + Professor of Creative Writing + Cultural Critic

Danielle Evans’ Bio

Danielle Evans (she/her) is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, The Chautauqua Prize, and The Los Angeles Times Book prize for fiction. She has also been awarded a US Artists Fellowship, The New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her work has been published magazines and anthologies including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, and The Best American Short Stories and has appeared on This American Life.

She is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a faculty affiliate in the Center for Africana Studies. She is interested in the gap between what happened and how we talk about it—how that gap operates in the space of an individual life, in the space of a family, and in the space of a country. Her work explores agency, performance, and the possibilities of the space between the public self and the private self.

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