Biography
In Summer 2017, he worked as a designer and reporter for the Alexandria Times, contributing to work that earned two third place presentation awards from the Virginia Press Association. While at the Alexandria Times, helped cover the Congressional Baseball Shooting and its aftermath in the city.
As an intern, he wrote, edited and designed at Washington Life Magazine, a society glossy where he wrote the May 2015 cover feature, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. He has freelanced for the Smithsonian Institution and completed extensive coursework in art history at Maryland, being named a finalist in the 2016 D.C. Student Arts Journalism Challenge for criticism with The Diamondback.
Born and raised outside Boston, Evan began his journalism career with a twice-weekly handwritten middle school paper whose circulation never quite reached double digits. In addition to work on his high school paper, he became the first teen-aged blogger for a lifestyle site aimed at teens' parents. He also contributed to the Boston Globe's now-defunct "Green Blog" environmental vertical while in high school. He relocated after college to Pittsfield, on the Western edge of the state in its beautiful Berkshires region, a nationally-renowned cultural center. He now designs full-time for The Berkshire Eagle, a newly re-independent paper covering the entire county as well as southern Vermont through a trio of sister newspapers, the Brattleboro Reformer, Bennington Banner and Manchester Journal.
His art historical interests lie primarily with French art, specifically the Realists, though his undergraduate colloquium dealt with Paul Gauguin and the Symbolists. Other hobbies include trains, model railroading, maps and geography. An avid and oft-disappointed Maryland fan, he also supports the Red Sox and the collegiate summer league Pittsfield Suns.
Photo by Chris Keosian