Elizabeth Cox

Elizabeth Cox is the author of novels, short stories, and poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and others. Her short stories have been read on NPR, and one selected for the O’Henry Award Collection. Her fiction won the Robert Penn Warren Award and the Lillian Smith Award. Cox taught at Duke University for seventeen years, and in the Bennington Low Residency Program for ten years. She held the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at UMass-Lowell, and taught at MIT. Most recently, Cox shared the John Cobb Chair of Humanities with her husband C. Michael Curtis at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.