Terry Cox-Joseph

Terry Cox-Joseph is a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia and the National League of Penwomen, and is a former newspaper reporter and editor. From 1994-2004 she was the coordinator for the Christopher Newport University Writers' Conference and Contest. An award-winning poet, she has been published in Northern Virginia Review, Allegro and Chiron Review among others. Her first poetry chapbook, “Between Then and Now,” was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Her first book of nonfiction, ADJUSTMENTS, The Making of a Chiropractor, was published by Hampton Roads Publishing in 1993. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Virginia Builder, Entrepreneur, Green’s Magazine, Virginia Adversaria, Brain Child and numerous other markets. A graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in illustration, she displays and sells her watercolors and acrylics across Virginia at galleries, shops and outdoor shows. Her children, pets and the waterfront provide a constant resource for her writing and art. (As well as an unremitting source of income for Stanley Steemer.) She often works long into the night with only chocolate to sustain her.