Evelyn Lau is the author of five volumes of poetry, two works of non-fiction, two short story collections and a novel. You Are Not Who You Claim won the Milton Acorn People? Poetry Award; Oedipal Dreams was nominated for the Governor-General? Award. Her work has appeared in over a hundred literary magazines, garnering four Western Magazine Awards and a National Magazine Award. She has read from and discussed her work at literary festivals and universities around the world. Evelyn is currently Vancouver? Poet Laureate.