- Daniel Allen Cox
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Daniel Allen Cox (born February 3, 1976) is a Canadian author and columnist. Shuck, his semi-autobiographical debut novel about a New York City hustler, was a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award finalist. Cox is described in interviews as a former Jehovah's Witness and model/actor in gay pornography, and his writing style has drawn comparisons to American authors Dennis Cooper and Chuck Palahniuk.[1][2] In 2010, AfterElton.com named Cox one of its "Favorite Gay Canucks." [3] He writes the column Fingerprinted for Xtra Ottawa, formerly known as Capital Xtra![4]
Krakow Melt the second novel by Cox published by Arsenal Pulp Press, about Polish pyromaniacs who fight homophobia, was released in 2010 and was excerpted the US-based national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate.[5] In 2011, Istanbul-based publisher Altikirkbes acquired Turkish-language rights to the novel for an underground literature imprint featuring Lydia Lunch.[6] The novel was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.
Cox has appeared at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival, Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago,[7] McGill University,[8] Wilfrid Laurier University's Rainbow Centre, the San Francisco Sex Worker Arts Festival,[9] WESTFEST, AIDS Committee of Ottawa, and CBC Radio One.[10][11] He is a former fiction editor of Outsider Ink, and his own fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He is openly gay.[12]
Tattoo This Madness In, his novella about LGBT Jehovah’s Witnesses who use Smurf tattoos to rebel against their faith, was nominated for a 2007 Expozine Alternative Press Award.[13][14]
Bibliography
- Krakow Melt (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010) ISBN 9781551523729
- I Like It Like That (anthology story, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) ISBN 9781551522593
- Second Person Queer (anthology essay, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) ISBN 9781551522456
- Shuck (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) ISBN 9781551522463
- Tattoo This Madness In (novella, Dusty Owl Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9739266-4-3
- Year of the Thief (anthology story, Thieves Jargon Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9770750-1-0
- Episodes of Deflated Magic (short story chapbook, Fever Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9732424-1-8
References
- ^ The Mirror, September 11, 2008
- ^ The Danforth Review, March 2009
- ^ AfterElton.com's Favorite Gay Canucks
- ^ Fingerprinted, a column by Daniel Allen Cox
- ^ Krakow Melt excerpted in The Advocate
- ^ Altikirkbes acquires Turkish-language rights to Krakow Melt
- ^ Daniel Allen Cox speaks at Columbia College Chicago
- ^ Daniel Allen Cox lectures at Queer McGill
- ^ San Francisco Sex Worker Arts Festival
- ^ Ottawa International Writer's Festival
- ^ CBC Radio One, December 2, 2006
- ^ "Francis Vol interviews Daniel Allen Cox", Velvet Mafia (21), http://velvetmafia.com/interview/21.cox.php, retrieved 2007-10-06
- ^ The Link
- ^ Expozine Awards
External links
Categories:- 1976 births
- Canadian novelists
- LGBT writers from Canada
- Gay writers
- Living people
- Writers from Quebec
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