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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Wilmington, NC

North Carolina US

Email:

coxm@uncw.edu

Bio:

MARK COX teaches in the Vermont College MFA Program and in the Department of Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington, where he served as founding chair. He has served as Poetry Editor of both Passages North and of Cimarron Review, and as Poet in Residence at The Frost Place. He has given public readings or invited lectures, workshops and panels at numerous bookstores and institutions in 36 states.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

East St. Louis

Raised in:

Belleville, IL

Illinois

Website:

https://www.uncw.edu/writers/facstaff/co… [2]

Prizes won:

Honors include a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize, and a Burlington-Northern Faculty Achievement Award. He has received fellowships from the Kansas Arts Commission, the Vermont Council on the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any