50 years old (Born on April 26, 1975)
Happy Birthday, Emily Mitchell—literary trailblazer and master storyteller extraordinaire! May this birthday be more dazzling than your captivating debut novel, "The Last Summer of the World," which stole our hearts faster than other authors steal cookies from the writers’ room.Whether you’re crafting exquisite tales for esteemed journals like The Utne Reader and The Nation or brilliantly penning stories such as "Five Serrated Dreams" (seriously impressive title), you're clearly unstoppable. So cheers to another year filled with sharp wit, literary genius—and hopefully fewer revisions. Here's hoping today is timelessly spectacular...just like every piece you've ever written!