William Evans

William Evans writes poetry and cultural criticism that examine popular culture, race, fandom, and everyday life. Gallery Books published Black Nerd Problems in 2021 as a collaborative essay collection written with Omar Holmon. The volume expands the perspective of the project they created together, moving across comics, film, television, gaming, music, and personal experience. Evans and Holmon combine close attention to entertainment with reflections on identity and community, showing why popular stories can matter beyond simple diversion. Their contrasting voices and shared humor are part of the book’s structure, so Evans’s authorship cannot be separated from Holmon’s contribution. The fuller title, Black Nerd Problems: Essays, identifies the work as an essay collection, not fiction or a reference guide. Across its chapters, the collection treats enthusiasm and criticism as compatible, allowing affection for a genre to coexist with questions about representation. That balance gives Evans’s cultural writing both immediacy and analytical range.