Lois Cox Explained

Lois Marguerite Cox is a New Zealand writer. She writes under her own name and is also one half of a writing partnership with Hilary Lapsley which publishes under the pen-name Jennifer Palgrave.[1]

Biography

In 1974, Cox worked with Harvey McQueen to co-edit the first anthology for schools of work by contemporary New Zealand poets, Ten Modern New Zealand Poets.[2]

From 1995 to 1998 she was one of a team of three interviewers who collected oral histories of older lesbians who had grown up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s.[3] In 2000, she received a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund award to develop the project.[4] In 2003, she contributed a chapter to Outlines: lesbian & gay histories of Aotearoa.[5]

In the 1986 New Year Honours she was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service.[6]

Publications

Personal life

Cox is in a long-term relationship with Hilary Lapsley. The couple split their time between Cox's home in Wellington and their apartment in an Auckland co-housing development.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lois Cox New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa . 13 April 2023 . en-US.
  2. Obituary: Harvey John McQueen, ONZM, JP . . 13 April 2023 . 17 January 2011.
  3. Web site: Older lesbians' stories oral history project . 13 April 2023 . natlib.govt.nz.
  4. Web site: New Zealand History Research Trust recipients . 13 April 2023.
  5. Web site: Outlines : lesbian & gay histories of Aotearoa . 13 April 2023 . Auckland Museum.
  6. Web site: Cox, Lois . 13 April 2023 . natlib.govt.nz.
  7. Book: Ten modern New Zealand poets . 1974 . Longman Paul . Harvey McQueen, Lois Cox . 0-582-68795-0 . Auckland . 1366513.
  8. Book: Palgrave, Jennifer . The one that got away . 2019 . 978-0-473-50007-8 . Wellington, NZ . 1129388379.
  9. Book: Palgrave, Jennifer . Rising tide . 2021 . 978-0-473-56050-8 . Wellington, NZ . 1241967562.
  10. Web site: Hawkes . Colleen . 9 July 2022 . What it's like to retire to a co-housing development, with neighbours from 1 to 80 . 13 April 2023 . Stuff . en.

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