The College of

Arts and Sciences

 

Ph.D. and MA, English, Oklahoma State University

BA, Theatre, Earlham College

 

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Creative Writing - Fiction

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 3030 Fiction Writing

• ENGL 2513, Introduction to Creative Writing

• ENGL 2413, Exploring Literature

• ENGL 1313 Critical Analysis and Writing I (Honors)

• ENGL 1213, Composition II

• ENGL 1113 Composition I

• ENGL 2883, Survey of American Literature II

• GWST 3450 GLBTQ Literature

• ENGL 1413, Critical Analysis and Writing II

• ENGL 1313, Critical Analysis and Writing I

Selected Publications

Books:

• The Canary Keeper (PANK Books; 2019) 

• Remarkable (BOA Editions; 2016)
  

Short Stories

• “Guidelines” Change Seven (forthcoming)

• “Everyone Loves a Parade” Redivider (forthcoming) 

• "Oh, I Know” Arts & Letters 44 (Spring, 2022): 110-120.

• “The Moon Landing” December 32.2, (Fall/Winter 2021): 11-25. 

• “Joey Mullins is not the Narrator” Blue Lake Review, March, 2021 

• “Playing Cards”Yalobusha Review 33 (Spring, 2021) 

• “Paper Fan” The Masters Review New Voices (Spring, 2021) 

• “Antifreeze Dream” The Virginia Normal 7: (Spring, 2021): 52-62. 

• “On the Lookout for Nazis These Days” Florida Review 44.1 (Spring, 2020): 139-149. 

• “The Red Envelope” Fictive Dream (online) April, 2020

• “Dress Rehearsal”Jabberwock Review 40.1 (Summer, 2019): 7-25. 

• “The Shark” 2 Bridges Review 8 (Spring, 2019): 45-56. 

• “Three Back to School Stories” New Orleans Review online

• “Sonny and Cher” Big Muddy 18.2 (2018): 52-59 

• “Please Listen Carefully; Our Menu Items Have Changed” Raleigh Review 8.2 (Fall, 2018): 45-56. 

• “Shoobie” Gulf Coast online 

• “Grinders for Lunch” Free State Review 8 (Winter, 2018): 17-21. 

• “The Old-Fashioned Way”Fixional

• “Lost and Found Boys” Juked 5.31.2017 

• “Sick Bed” Pembroke Magazine 2017: 75-87. 

• “Just Saying Hello” The Laurel Review 49.2 (2016): 20.

• “Tabloid”Smokelong Quarterly (online).
  

• “Oklahoma Drivers are Very Upset” The Meadow 2016: 69-79

• “The History Professor” Calyx 28.3 (Summer 2015): 84-91

• “The Love Feast” South Dakota Review 51.3-4 (Spring 2015): 174-180.

•  “Recipe for Disaster”StoryQuarterly 48 (2015): 269-283.

• “Bun in the Oven” Hayden’s Ferry Review online, (December, 2014).

• “The Dot” Evening Street Review 10 (Spring 2014): 55-65.

• “Three Small Town Stories” Salt Hill 32 (Spring 2014): 8-11.

• “Glue” J Journal 6.1 (Spring 2013): 41-55.

• “April Fool’s Day” Confrontation 113 (Spring 2013): 163-173.

• “Three Sad Stories” Quarterly West 76 (Fall 2012).

• “Adolescence in B Flat” Limestone (2012): 56-73.

• “The Canary Keeper” Prairie Schooner 86.3 (Fall 2012): 53-64.

• “Donna Valentine Live” Cream City Review 35.2 (Fall 2011): 22-37.

• “Blackout” Folio 26.1 (Spring 2011): 85-87.

• “Three Fire Stories” Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment 13.2 (2011): 24-28.

• “The End of Something Better, The Start of Something Worse” Beloit Fiction

• Journal 24 (Spring, 2011): 39-50.

• “Leo’s Peking Palace” Copper Nickel 13 (2010): 33-41.

• “Remarkable” Zone 3 24.2 (2009): 60-68. 

• “Honk, Honk Dead” Dislocate 4 (2008): 49-63.

• “The Quisenberry Family Singers” REAL—Regarding Arts & Letters 32.2 (2008): 1-12.

• “Tragedy and the Common Woman” Other Voices 42 (2005): 155-160.

• “How to Write About Oklahoma” North Dakota Quarterly 71 (2004): 22-28.

• “Three Stories of Prosperity” The Texas Observer.

• “The Umbrella is a Mark of Distinction” Eleven, Eleven 10.
  

• “Pie in the Sky” The Fiddleback 1.

• “Yellow Dogs” The Wanderlust Review 1.

Poems

• “Birth Certificate” and “Hospital Chart” Bellingham Review online, Fall 2011.

Interviews 

•  Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Interview with Dinah Cox: Flash Prose Contest Honorable Mention."
  

• Late Night Library: “Dinah Cox—Remarkable."

• Smokelong Quarterly: “Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Dinah Cox."

Honors & Offices

• Finalist, The George Garrett Fiction Prize, Texas Review Press, 2022. 

• Finalist, Moon City Short Fiction Prize, Moon City Press, 2022. 

• Finalist, Katherine Anne Porter Prize, University of North Texas Press, 2022. 

• Winner, Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, December magazine, 2021. 

• Semifinalist, Non/Fiction Collection Prize, The Journal, 2021. 

• Honorable Mention, Masters Review prose chapbook contest, 2021. 

• Finalist, Bateau Press Chapbook Contest, 2021. 

• Longlisted, Steel Toe Books 2020 Prize in Prose. 

• Finalist, Hudson Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2019. 

• Finalist, Reynolds Price Prize for Fiction; Center for Women Writers, 2019. 

• Winner, Nancy D. Hargrove Editor’s Prize in Fiction, Jabberwock Review, 2019. 

• Finalist, Reynolds Price Prize in Fiction; Center for Women Writers, 2018. 

• Finalist, Lamar York Prize for Fiction, Chattahoochee Review, 2018. 

• Finalist, Moon City Short Fiction Award, Moon City Press, 2017. 

• Finalist, G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Fiction, BkMk Press, 2016.

• Nominated, Pushcart Prize, 2015, “A Trip to South America” by SuperstitionReview.

• Winner, Fourth Annual BOA Short Fiction Prize (2014).

• Honorable Mention, 500 for 500 Flash-Prose Contest, 2014, Hayden’s FerryReview.

• Shortlisted: Pressgang Prize, 2014, Pressgang Press at Butler University.

• Nominated, Pushcart Prize “Glue” 2013 by J Journal.Honorable Mention, 2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest.

• Finalist, 2013 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.

• Finalist, Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, Willow Springs Books, 2012.

• Runner-up, Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, University of GeorgiaPress, 2012.

• Finalist, Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, Willow Springs Books, 2011.

• Finalist, New American Press Short Fiction Contest, 2011.

• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2009.

• Nominated, Pushcart Prize, “The Quisenberry Family Singers,” 2008 by REAL.

• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2008.

• Marye Lynn Cumming Graduate Scholarship, 2008.

• Academy of American Poets Prize, 2006.

• Honorable Mention, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Poetry Prize,2006.

• Third Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2006.

• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2005.

• Third Place, Atlantic Monthly Student Writers’ Contest for Fiction, 2003.

• Honorable Mention, Oklahoma State University Women’s Faculty Council Award for Scholarship in the Area of Women’s Issues, 2002.

• Audre Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2002.

• Second Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Fiction Prize, 2002.

• First Place, Oklahoma State University Creative Writing Poetry Prize, 2001.

• First Place, Oklahoma State University Women’s Faculty Council Award for Scholarship in the Area of Women’s Issues, 2000.