Evan Balkan coordinates the English Department at the Community College of Baltimore County, where he runs the creative writing program, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University’s graduate Teaching Writing program. He has served as a guest lecturer at Yale, Johns Hopkins, Bryn Mawr and many other institutions. He is the author of six books of non-fiction, including Wrath of God: Lope de Aguirre; Revolutionary of the Americas as well as numerous essays and short fiction in an array of publications. His novel, Spitfire (Amphorae Publishing, 2018) was adapted into a screenplay that won both the Baltimore Screenwriters Competition and a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellowship.