When he was eight years old, Evan Elliot started reading the L.L. Bean
catalog with the same rapt attention he devoted to books on baseball.
Eighteen years later, he landed his first copywriting job at the Smith &
Hawken catalog. Since then, Evan has directed the copy departments at Smith & Hawken, J. Crew, and Haggin Marketing, and has freelanced for the likes of J. Peterman, Restoration Hardware, the David Brower Center, Sunset Books — and L.L. Bean. These days, Evan’s main work is copy strategy and copywriting, from big-picture concepts to item descriptions. He writes and edits for advertising agencies, companies, catalogs, websites, magazines, newspapers, and nonprofit organizations.

Evan also writes the wine-and-food pairings column for Edible San Francisco magazine, teaches rhetoric at the University of San Francisco, and teaches a personal essay workshop at U.C. Berkeley Extension. He holds a master’s degree in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa; lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and cat; likes to read, write, eat, and play ultimate frisbee; and drives a car that runs on vegetable oil.

To see Evan's copy sampler, click here.
To see Evan's resume, click here.

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