The Business of Literature: The Inside Story of an Entrepreneur's Success With Translation Publishing

Will Evans

Publisher

Deep Vellum

Will Evans is an award-winning publisher, writer, translator, bookstore owner, professor, and literary arts advocate.  In 2013, he founded Deep Vellum, a nonprofit publishing house and bookstore, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories by underrepresented writers, and cultivating a lifelong love of reading through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts.  He was awarded CLMP's Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing in 2019, was accepted to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022, became a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture in 2023, and was knighted by France as a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2024.  He received BA degrees in History and Russian Literature from Emory University, and an MA in Russian Culture from Duke University.  His translation of Russian writer Oleg Kashin's novel Fardwor, Russia: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin was published by Restless Books in 2016.  He teaches courses on Publishing and Russian Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas and SMU.  A native of Wilmington, North Carolina, he lives in East Dallas with his wife and two children.