Listen to an invigorating conversation with award-winning publisher, translator, bookstore owner, writer, and literary arts advocate Will Evans. He is the founder and CEO of Deep Vellum Publishing, a nonprofit literary arts organization founded in 2013, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories, and making our world a more literary place through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts. In this episode he discusses what inspired him to get into translation and publishing, and the history of founding Deep Vellum Books, a bookstore in Dallas’s historic Deep Ellum, in 2015. Evans graduated from Emory University with degrees in History and Russian Literature, and received a Master’s degree in Russian Culture from Duke University. His translation of Russian writer Oleg Kashin’s political satire novel, Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin, was published by Restless Books in 2016. In October 2019, Will Evans was awarded CLMP’s Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Literary Publishing.
Our guest host for today’s episode is Shelby Vincent. Shelby Vincent is a Research Associate in the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, she is also managing editor of Translation Review, as well as a lecturer in the University’s School of Arts and Humanities, and a translator from the Spanish.

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