Dinah Cox

author of "Remarkable"

December 9, 2016

Dinah Cox's first book of stories, Remarkable, won the fourth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Calyx, and online at The Texas Observer and Hayden's Ferry Review. Her works have won prizes from The Atlantic Monthly and Hayden's Ferry Review. Since 2005, she has served as associate editor for Cimarron Review, a national quarterly publication produced by the OSU English department.

Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people and landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character that is neither protagonist nor antagonist, but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one – you or Oklahoma?

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/dinah-cox

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