William Edmund Evans

Bill Evans

A practicing writer and architect, Bill Evans is now engaged full time in making a living from writing. Born in Sumter, South Carolina, he graduated from Clemson, then obtained a Master of Architecture from Yale in the mid-70s. He did a five year stint in Miami, learned to love the tropics or what was left, then moved to Northern Virginia to further an architecture career, pursuing writing on the weekends.

Architecture is an art of composition and resonance, and has parallels to writing, in its rhythms, symmetries, balance and proportion. Evans is proud of the buildings, particularly the libraries, he’s designed, supporting the urban environment, though he has always looked to writing for discovering purpose in his own existence.

The father of two sons, and the barest survivor from losing one, it’s difficult to be objective about life after such a loss. Three going on four books of poetry, he is not sure he’s done with writing about Ryan. But if his belief, that life is strange and beautiful, can ever be proved, it will be by way of his fiction stories, only because he wants to write of things outside of his own life.

Just as brick and glass are tangible cultural markers, what is fascinating about writing is how stories can survive in spite of their ephemeral being. These are the veins needing to be mined until our star grows dull and cold.