Dinah Cox, PhD student, Creative Writing

BA Earlham College
MA Oklahoma State University

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Fiction Writing
• Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Publications

• Short Stories:
• “Honk, Honk Dead” Dislocate (forthcoming).
• “The Quisenberry Family Singers” REAL—Regarding Arts & Letters (forthcoming).
• “Tragedy and the Common Woman” Other Voices 42 (2005): 155-160.
• “How to Write About Oklahoma” North Dakota Quarterly 71 (2004): 22-28.

Honors and Offices

• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2008.
• Marye Lynn Cumming Graduate Scholarship, 2008.
• Academy of American Poets Prize, 2006.
• Honorable Mention, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Poetry Prize, 2006.
• Third Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2006.
• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2005.
• Third Place, Atlantic Monthly Student Writers’ Contest for Fiction, 2003.
• Honorable Mention, Oklahoma State University Women’s Faculty Council Award for Scholarship in the Area of Women’s Issues, 2002.
• Audre Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2002.
• Second Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2002.
• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Poetry Prize, 2001.
• First Place, Oklahoma State University Women’s Faculty Council Award for Scholarship in the Area of Women’s Issues, 2000.

Current Research/Articles in Progress

• Full-length collection of short stories

Why OSU?

• The fiction writers and poets here at OSU have strong national reputations, and the course offerings in literature give creative writing students the chance to read a wide variety of published work. Stillwater is a nice, inexpensive place to live—the ideal location for the working apprentice writer.
 

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