Evan Wang is a community arts advocate and published writer. He received the 2024 National YoungArts Award and a 2024 Scholastic National Gold Medal for poetry. Evan is passionate about public health and accessibility to arts programming. He loves amplifying youth voices, and adores fashion, food, and friends. In 2022, Evan was named the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where he organized open mics and writing workshops at over a dozen libraries, universities, and community centers, taught creative writing and publishing to aspiring writers across the country, and raised his county’s Pride Flag alongside government officials. He performed his poetry at the U.S. Department of Education, Love Park, the Miami Book Fair, and was invited to the White House for the first interagency Youth Policy Summit. He was included on the Expressions of Freedom Firework Soundtrack that accompanied a fireworks show at Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Bridge. Evan is the editor-in-chief of Hominum Journal, an international creative arts magazine that publishes acclaimed writers who have earned recognition from the Academy of American Poets and the Pushcart Anthology. A junior board member of the Indian Valley Arts Foundation and the director of the Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program, Evan’s work to enact positive social change has been recognized by the CDC, NPR, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Governor Josh Shapiro, TEDx, etc..

He said in an NPR article, “Poetry found me — a first-generation American living in the quiet suburbs — in this vastness, took my hand, and helped me find myself.” He seeks to do the same for others.