A poet, performer, and instructor from Columbus, Ohio, William Evans founded the Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam in 2009 and co-founded the website Black Nerd Problems. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair (Button Poetry, 2017). He has competed at the National Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam. He is a Callaloo and Watering Hole Fellow and received the 2016 Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant and the 2018 Spirit of Columbus Foundation Grant.
