Ragan Fox

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Born Ragan Cooper Fox
1976
Hollywood, CA
[www.raganfox.com Official website]

Ragan Cooper Fox (born May 9, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is a gay poet and performance artist who is an assistant professor of communication at California State University, Long Beach. He received a B.S. and an M.A. (2001) from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. (2006) from Arizona State University.

He is the host of the podcast Fox and the City, which was heard weekly on Sirius Radio 103. Fox and his work have been featured in Out and Genre magazines, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Topics, Frontiers, The Journal of Homosexuality, The Phoenix New Times, Cyber Socket, The Bottom Line, VelvetMafia.com, GetUnderground.com, LodestarQuarterly.com, the Austin-American Statesman, Echo magazine, and on Air America's Harrison on the Edge. Genre called Fox and the City a "huge hit",[citation needed] and Out has declared Fox as one of the "gays leading the way in online media's next big thing".[citation needed]

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[edit] Biography

Ragan Cooper Fox is the son of business and acquisitions entrepreneur Leonard Martin Fox Sr. and his former wife, Laura Henson, who divorced when Fox was an infant. He has several half-siblings.

In 1994, he moved to Austin, Texas, where he attended the University of Texas. After performing a poetry program about spoken word poetry for a graduate class at UT, Fox was invited to feature at the Austin Poetry Slam.[1] He eventually represented the city at three National Poetry Slams (2000, 2001, and 2002).[2] He and his poetry have been featured in multiple venues, including the Nuyorican Poets Café and the Bowery Poetry Club. Fox is also one of the original members of the Bullhorn Collective, an exclusive group that performs poetry at colleges and various events around the globe.[3]

In July 2002, Fox moved to Phoenix, Arizona to attend the doctoral program in Human Communication at Arizona State University. Throughout his doctoral studies, Fox continued to write poetry. In August of 2005, he advanced to the individual finals of the National Poetry Slam, where he finished third in the nation.

In the summer of 2005, Fox started a podcast, Fox and the City.[citation needed] Originally created to showcase work he intended to stage, the program eventually developed into an unscripted hodgepodge of personal narrative, pop culture observations, agitprop, and political commentary.

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  • Fox’s sister Tina is on the cover of V.C. Andrews’ book Garden of Shadows, a prequel to Flowers in the Attic.
  • Ragan is the highest finishing GLBTQ-identified poet in the history of the individual competition at the National Poetry Slam.
  • Fox was briefly roommates with Wammo, lead singer of the Asylum Street Spankers.
  • One of Fox's brothers is Randy Powers, a prominent interior decorator in Houston. Randy is also gay. They share a mother whose birth name is Gay. Randy and Ragan are Gay's only children.
  • Fox and the City was named "Best Podcast" in the Phoenix New Times "Best of 2006" contest.
  • Fox attended Cy-Fair High School with folk singer Jolie Holland. Fox and Holland graduated from the school in 1994.

[edit] Bibliography of Published Works

Fox, Ragan C. “Attack of the Ribbon Magnets.” High Desert Voices: The 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology. Whitmore Lake, MI: The Wordsmith Press, 2006. 91-92

Fox, Ragan C. “‘Breeding’ HIV: Performativity and the Communication of Transgressive Desire.” Gender Query: Explorations of Identity, Expression, and Embodiment. Ed. Jakob Hero. Albion Row, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Fox, Ragan C. “Faggot: For Gay Boys Who Have Considered Rainbows When Suicide Wasn’t Enough.” Freedom to Speak. Whitmore Lake, MI: The Wordsmith Press, 2003. 45-47.

Fox, Ragan C. “Gay Grows Up: An Interpretive Study of Aging Metaphors and Queer Identity.” Journal of Homosexuality 52 (2007): 33-61.

Fox, Ragan. Gays in (Cyber-) Space: Online Performances of Gay Identity. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Publishing House, 2007.

Fox, Ragan C. Heterophobia. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe. 2005. ISBN 1-59021-019-

Fox, Ragan C. “If I Were a Woman.” In Our Own Words, Volume 3. Raleigh, NC: MWE Press, 2000. 51-52.

Fox, Ragan C. “Negative: Using Performative Interventions to Explore HIV-Negativity.” Theatre Topics 16 (2006): 47-64.

Fox, Ragan C. “Raging Against Rage: Telling Tales of Taboo, Molestation, and Anger.” Text and Performance Quarterly 26 (2006): 98-107.

Fox, Ragan C. “Skinny Bones #126-774-835-29: Thin Gay Bodies Signifying a Modern Plague.” Text and Performance Quarterly 27 (2007): 3-19.

Fox, Ragan C. "Sober Drag Queens, Digital Forests, and Bloated 'Lesbians' (Oh, My!): Performing Gay Identities Online." Qualitative Inquiry (In Press.)

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  2. ^ Austin Poetry Slam › APS Teams
  3. ^ bullhorncollective.com