Christine Evans scored a double victory in the Best of Cox this year, winning in Feature Writing and also walking away with top honors as Cox's Best Writer for 2003.

	"As judges we didn't want to stop reading. The writing style was distinctive and reader-friendly. The articles consisted of good storytelling backed by thorough reporting. Active voice and use of dialogue made for tales that took you there. Writing was engaging; for example: ‘She wept. She screamed. She fainted.' Pace and description were outstanding. Use of alliteration was used to quicken the pace of the story."
	• No Ordinary Life • Forgotten, Every Step Of The Way • Forgotten, Every Setp Of The Way • Mcbride Battles The Recognition Factor To Challenge Bush, He Must Beat Janet Reno • Miracles Take Time • Miss Lillie's Touch

Awards are nothing new for the Palm Beach Post veteran who has a Sigma Delta Chi feature-writing first place to her credit

Evans has a taut style for storytelling. In her hands, a piece on the mother of a missing child becomes an exploration of one woman's ascent from the hell of crack cocaine and a state's descent into the sort of bureaucratic neglect that kills children.

In Evans' hands, an article about an angel of mercy to migrant workers becomes a poignant look at the hard truth: Miracles take time.

Evans' powers of observation are surpassed only by her attentive ear for the language of her subjects. She allows readers to hear the story unfiltered. Her most memorable stories have been about families, their predicaments, their successes and failures and the way they soar or stumble.

Before joining the Post in 1995, Evans reported for the Dublin Evening Herald in Ireland; edited a Cincinnati weekly; and covered a variety of assignments for the Miami Herald.

She also has won two Pulliam writing awards; was named top feature writer in the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors competition for three of the last four years; and shared in a 1991 Pulitzer Prize won by the Miami Herald's staff for spot news reporting on the Yahweh religious sect.

The Amherst College graduate lives in Delray Beach, Fla., with her husband, Pete Cross, and their two daughters.