Let's make this birthday one to remember.

53 years old (Born on July 02, 1971)

Happy Birthday, Evelyn! May your day be filled with poetic inspiration stronger than coffee and smoother than Vancouver rain. Your brilliant works like *You Are Not Who You Claim*, the award-winning mastery of *Oedipal Dreams*, and insightful charm of *Living Under Plastic* have left us reflecting—and laughing—at life's absurdities wrapped in elegant verse.

Thank you for being the literary heartbeat that keeps our city's poetry pulse vibrant (and delightfully complex!). Here's hoping this birthday brings an abundance of joyful metaphors, a year free from writer's block, and enough cake to fuel at least one more collection—cheers!