Lois Cox

Lois Jennifer 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. Cox wrote the project up as the book, That's what I am: Oral Histories of Older Lesbians, which appeared in 2025.

Publications

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

  1. ↑ "Lois Cox | New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa". Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Obituary: Harvey John McQueen, ONZM, JP" (Press release). Scoop. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Older lesbians' stories oral history project". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "New Zealand History Research Trust recipients". Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Outlines : lesbian & gay histories of Aotearoa". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  6. ↑ Ten modern New Zealand poets. Harvey McQueen, Lois Cox. Auckland: Longman Paul. 1974. ISBN 0-582-68795-0. OCLC 1366513.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ↑ Palgrave, Jennifer (2019). The one that got away. Wellington, NZ. ISBN 978-0-473-50007-8. OCLC 1129388379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Palgrave, Jennifer (2021). Rising tide. Wellington, NZ. ISBN 978-0-473-56050-8. OCLC 1241967562.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ↑ Cox, Lois (2025). That's What I Am: Oral Histories of Older Lesbians. WELLINGTON, NZ: Town Belt Press (published 13 February 2025). ISBN 9780473732998.
  10. ↑ Hawkes, Colleen (9 July 2022). "What it's like to retire to a co-housing development, with neighbours from 1 to 80". Stuff. Retrieved 13 April 2023.