John Evans (born 1960) is a Welsh singer, artist, filmmaker, and writer. He started his career as frontman for the punk band The Tax Exiles. Since the 1990s he has worked as a full-time writer and filmmaker, and is part of the New Wave of Welsh writing. His books include Industria, G.B.H., and a novel, Giants. John Evans often writes about his native South Wales Valleys. He has also written a number of non-fiction books, among them an economic, social, and cultural examination of post-industrial South Wales, How Real Is My Valley? - Postmodernism & the South Wales Valleys, and the natural history work, The Red Kite in Wales.