Daniel Allen Cox
| Daniel Allen Cox | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2000s-present |
| Notable work(s) | Shuck, Krakow Melt |
Daniel Allen Cox (born February 3, 1976) is a Canadian author and screenwriter. Shuck, his debut novel about a New York City hustler, was a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award finalist.
Life and career
Cox is described in interviews as a former Jehovah's Witness and model/actor in gay pornography.[1] From 2008 to 2011, he wrote the column "Fingerprinted" for Capital Xtra! in Ottawa, Ontario.[2]
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 in the US-based national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate.[3] In 2011, Istanbul-based publisher Altikirkbes acquired Turkish-language rights to the novel for an underground literature imprint featuring Lydia Lunch.[4] The novel was nominated for the ReLit Award, the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. Cox's third novel, Basement of Wolves, was released in 2012.[5]
In a cover interview for Xtra!, the author revealed a collaboration with Bruce LaBruce on the screenplay for the director's upcoming film, Gerontophilia.[6] Cox's script One Shut Night was named one of five finalists in the 2013 NYC PictureStart Film Festival short screenplay contest, with the announcement of a stage reading directed by Peter Kelley.[7]
Cox has appeared at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, Ottawa International Writers' Festival, Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago,[8] McGill University,[9] Wilfrid Laurier University's Rainbow Centre, the San Francisco Sex Worker Arts Festival,[10] WESTFEST, GritLit, AIDS Committee of Ottawa, and CBC Radio One.[11][12] He is a former fiction editor of Outsider Ink, and his own fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He is openly gay.[13]
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.
Bibliography
- Episodes of Deflated Magic (short story chapbook, Fever Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9732424-1-8
- Year of the Thief (anthology story, Thieves Jargon Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9770750-1-X
- Tattoo This Madness In (novella, Dusty Owl Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9739266-4-3
- Shuck (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-55152-246-3
- Second Person Queer (anthology essay, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1-55152-245-6
- I Like It Like That (anthology story, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1-55152-259-3
- Krakow Melt (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-55152-372-9
- Basement of Wolves (novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-55152-446-7
References
- ↑ Montreal Mirror, September 11, 2008.
- ↑ Daniel Allen Cox author archives. Xtra! Ottawa.
- ↑ "The Ninio in the Room". The Advocate, September 16, 2010.
- ↑ "Deals: Natalee Caple, Cary Fagan, Mariko Tamaki, and more". Quill & Quire, February 23, 2011.
- ↑ Basement of Wolves, Arsenal Pulp Press.
- ↑ Matthew Hays. "The inner life of Daniel Allen Cox". Xtra!, April 5, 2012.
- ↑ NYC PictureStart Film Festival 2013 edition.
- ↑ LGBTQ students speak out. The Columbia Chronicle, October 18, 2010.
- ↑ "Hit List". Hour Community, November 23, 2006.
- ↑ Queer Arts Festival :: Formerly Known As. Edge San Francisco, June 10, 2009.
- ↑ Ottawa International Writer's Festival.
- ↑ CBC Radio One, December 2, 2006.
- ↑ "Francis Vol interviews Daniel Allen Cox", Velvet Mafia (21), retrieved 2007-10-06
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