Evie Atom Atkinson

Evie Atom Atkinson is a freelance narrative + development consultant, with a specialty in supporting justice-centered arts nonprofits. She works as a freelance writer, writing coach, developmental editor, sensitivity reader, and teacher, currently based between New York, Los Angeles, and Croatia.

Scott Andrew and Evie Atom Atkinson worked to create Open Thread in the early 2000's which developed into a small press and variety cabaret performance series in Pittsburgh, PA.

She has had accomplished full-time careers in nonprofit administration, curriculum design, and teaching creative writing, literature, and gender studies for high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as lifelong learning centers.

Previously, she was the inaugural Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Director of Writing Programs at Catapult, year-round Creative Writing faculty at Interlochen Arts Academy, and summer Literature & Film faculty for Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

Evie studied creative writing and literature at Carnegie Mellon (BA) and Louisiana State (MFA), and is completing PhD work at Utah. She has been a Fulbright Research Scholar in the arts (Croatia) and a Critical Language Scholar in Korean (South Korea).