Elizabeth Cox

Elizabeth Cox

Ms. Cox has completed four novels: Familiar Ground, The Ragged Way People Fall Out Of Love, and Night Talk, Night Talk won the Lillian Smith Award given by the Southern Regional Council. Her novel, The Slow Moon, was released in August 2006.

She has also published a collection of short stories, Bargains in the Real World. One of these stories was included in the O.Henry Collection. She has also published essays in Ms. Magazine, and Lears, and poetry in The Southern Review as well as The Atlantic Monthly.

Cox taught creative writing at Duke University for seventeen years, where she was Professor of the Practice of Writing. She has taught as Lecturer in the graduate writing programs at the University of Michigan, Tufts University, Boston University, and in the undergraduate program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In 2003 she was Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence at UMass-Lowell. She has taught at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, and in the Low Residency Graduate Writers Program at Bennington College, and presently holds John Cobb Chair of Humanities at Wofford College, in South Carolina.

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