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Mark Cox [1]

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

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