Evan Karp covers literary culture as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and is a regular contributor to SF Weekly's Exhibitionist blog. He is the founder and editor of Litseen and creator and host of Quiet Lightning, a monthly submission-based reading series that publishes each show as a book called sparkle & blink, which he also edits. He is a contributing editor of Instant City and the official blogger of Litquake.Evan moved to the Bay Area from Savannah, GA in June of 2009 having never attended a spoken word event. In that time he has filmed over 2,000 author readings, which you can see on YouTube and vimeo. In addition to covering the literary arts, he sometimes works as a freelance marketing and publicity consultant and as a book doctor.Evan lives in Bernal Heights and is always looking for these things: someone to climb the hill with him; more reporters for Litseen; and more volunteers for Quiet Lightning.
