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
McQueen H. & Cox L. (1974). Ten Modern New Zealand Poets. Longman Paul. Palgrave J. (2019). The one that got away. Town Belt Press. Palgrave J. (2021). Rising Tide. Town Belt Press. Cox, L. (2025). That's what I am: Oral Histories of Older Lesbians. Town Belt Press.
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.
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