Biography
Daniel Allen Cox is an author, columnist, Lambda Literary and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist, and fan of the serial comma. In the 2009 Montreal Mirror readers’ poll, Daniel was voted one of the top 10 best local authors. In 2010, AfterElton.com named Daniel one of its eleven “Favorite Gay Canucks.”
After stints as a Jehovah’s Witness and a porn model/actor, Daniel wrote the novella Tattoo This Madness In, shortlisted for a 2007 Expozine Alternative Press Award. This was followed by his debut novel Shuck, which was published to wide acclaim and rave reviews, and was shortlisted for a 2009 Lambda Literary Award and a 2009 ReLit Award. Shuck was an Arsenal Pulp Press bestseller in trade paperback, and a hardcover bestseller for New York-based InsightOut Books Club.
His apartment burned down on November 2, 2007, while he was writing Shuck.
His second novel, Krakow Melt, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in September 2010. It was excerpted in The Advocate, chosen by San Francisco’s A Different Light bookstore as its October 2010 book club pick, named a Book Marks Best Fiction 2010 selection, and selected as a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction and for a Lambda Literary Award. Istanbul-based Altikirkbes, the publisher behind the renowned Underground Poetix journal, will be translating and releasing a Turkish-language version of Krakow Melt as part of an underground literature series. The series will also feature books by Lydia Lunch and Richard Hell.
Daniel lived in Poland in 2004/2005, where he witnessed the Polish reaction to the death of the Polish Pope.
Daniel has spoken and performed widely, including at the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival, Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago, McGill University, Wilfrid Laurier University’s Rainbow Centre, WESTFEST, The Lammy Finalist Reading Series in New York City, the San Francisco Queer Arts Festival, the San Francisco Sex Worker Arts Festival, AIDS Committee of Ottawa, and on Canada’s national radio network, CBC Radio One.
In October 2010, Daniel performed at Writers with Drinks in San Francisco alongside Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
Daniel is currently working on a film script.
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