Claire L. EvansUS
Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician based in Los Angeles, whose work explores the intersection of biology, technology, and culture. She is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction, Terraform, and co-editor of the anthology Terraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022). Her 2018 book Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Penguin Random House) has been translated into six languages and was named one of the Top 10 Best Nonfiction Tech Books of All Time in 2023.
Her writing has appeared in WIRED, MIT Technology Review, Quanta, The Verge, Broadcast, The Guardian, The Believer, and Aeon, among others. She was nominated for a 2022 National Magazine Award. She is the writer of the video game Blippo+, published for Nintendo Switch, Mac, and PC by Panic Games—for which she won the 2025 New York Game Award for Best Writing.
She has spoken about her research and work at the Hirshhorn Museum, Sónar Festival, Walker Art Center, La Gaité Lyrique, Google I/O, The New Museum, XOXO Festival, Goethe-Institut, Manchester International Festival, SXSW, Gray Area, and the Decentralized Web Summit, among others. She is a 2024 MacDowell Calderwood Fellow for Journalism.