John W. Evans is the author of Should I Still Wish: A Memoir (Nebraska, 2017), Young Widower: A Memoir (Nebraska, 2014), and The Consolations: Poems (Trio House, 2014), and work that appears in The Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Slate, Boston Review, and Poets & Writers. He is the Nancy Draper Lecturer of Creative Nonfiction at Stanford, where he was previously a Stegner Fellow.