Evan Rehill is a writer, teacher, and curator/collaborator of the arts.
Evan Rehill’s fiction writing has been published widely. In 2026, Todos Contentos y Yo Tambien Press will publish his novel, THE SEQUELS; The Endless Intermission record label will put out the audio book cassette/vinyl for his collection of fictions, The Garden or the Empire; and he will contribute to the Risograph for the group show The Candle and the Hand (curated by Matthew Lusk). Rehill’s two books of short stories—The Garden or the Empire (Like Literally Press 2022) and The Way We’re Used To (Push Press 2008) were published in limited editions, with cover art by Paul Wackers and Ryan Coffey, respectively. Between those collections, Rehill’s prose has been published in American Short Fiction, Open City, No Tokens, Little Star, The Literary Review, Fourteen Hills, Lumina, Watchword Press, Instant City, Big Bell, and other journals. Rehill is the recipient of the Miriam Ylvisaker Award for Fiction Writing. His work on the page has another life on the stage. Rehill’s performances fuse psychology and theater into monologues crossing time, space, class, gender, and genre. Having received two Browning Society Awards for dramatic monologue and showcased these productions in galleries (NYC’s Heliopolis gallery, Sugar gallery, Cinders gallery), bookstores (NYC’s Book Thug Nation, Human Relations, Molasses, Powerhouse Arena), museums (SF Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney), and on the radio (Pirate Cat, San Francisco), the trajectory of Rehill’s progress has spanned two decades across two coasts. The author is currently at work on a play.
Writer
Evan Rehill teaches at Pratt Institute in the Humanities & Media Studies department. His classes at Pratt include Fiction Writing, Satire, Playwriting, and Literary & Critical Studies I and II. Every summer he teaches Creative Writing for the Pratt PreCollege program. At Rutgers University, Rehill teaches for Writers House in the English Department. His classes at Rutgers include Advanced Fiction Writing, Advanced Playwriting, Intermediate Fiction Writing, Intermediate Playwriting, Form and Technique in Fiction, and Introduction to Creative Writing. At San Francisco State University, he taught a course on The Shorter Story. Rehill has also taught writing workshops for artist statements, adult night school, and in the business sector.
Teacher
Evan Rehill co-founded and co-curated the Picasso Machinery performance series out of a Brooklyn storefront with fellow SF expats Pete Simonelli and Dana Schechter; they soon recruited Evan’s NYC friend Michael Sharick to be the Technical Director for the series. Picasso Machinery’s absolutely-free monthly event featured writers, dramatists, opera singers, live advice, live painting, film screenings, radio plays, dancers, and other varieties of the kitchen sink. They collectively shuttered the series as a family after nine years of full houses. Rehill has also curated performances for two NYC visual art shows (No Need for Improvement at Capsule Gallery in 2019, and In Lieu Of at Black Ball Gallery in 2020) with the inimitable Matthew Lusk. Rehill developed and directed Michael McCanne’s award-winning play Stalingrad in Brooklyn. He also served as Contributing Art Editor at No Tokens journal. Alongside Dan Johnson Lake, Maggie Otero, and Brian Nuda Rosch, Rehill curated the Backroom Gallery in San Francisco.
Collaborator
Rehill went to school in the mid-90s at San Francisco’s Adobe Bookshop under the mentorship of Andrew McKinley. Over the course of 13 years, Rehill would not only work at the store as an employee/ornament, he would use this unorthodox setting to host various performances for artists of all mediums, including dance performances by Biba Bell, painting shows featuring the artists from Creativity Explored (who ate lunch at the bookstore on a daily basis), a reading/music series called Here Comes Everybody that featured Anne-E. Wood for its inaugural show, and a book signing for Ian Svenonious (from Rehill’s favorite band in high school, Nation of Ulysses). Rehill studied Fiction Writing, Playwriting, and Pedagogy at San Francisco State University under the invaluable guidance of Matthew Clark Davison, Brian Thorstenson, and Toni Mirosevich. Led deeper into a spiritual realm by visionary Pat Kadyk and the ghost of his brother Peter, Rehill sang with a 30-member a cappella Leonard Cohen men's choir through the early aughts. The ensemble sang on street corners, in alleyways, under bridges, and at Gravity Goldberg’s much-storied Chanukah parties. Rehill left the group over directional differences before relocating to NYC.
