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.

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.'' 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. In 2000, she received a New Zealand History Research Trust Fund award to develop the project. In 2003, she contributed a chapter to ''Outlines: lesbian & gay histories of Aotearoa.'' In the

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she was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service.

Publications

* McQueen H. & Cox L. (1974). ''Ten Modern New Zealand Poets''. Longman Paul. * Palgrave J. (2019). ''The one that got away''. Town Belt Press. * Palgrave J. (2021). ''Rising Tide''. Town Belt Press.

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.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Queen's Service Medal 21st-century New Zealand women writers 20th-century New Zealand women writers New Zealand lesbian writers {{NewZealand-writer-stub