Hayli May Cox

Hayli Cox
PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor, EGSA Vice President
04 Tate Hall
hcox@mail.missouri.edu
Education

BA in English with Full Honors, minor in Biology | Northern Michigan University

MA in Writing and Literature | Northern Michigan University

PhD in English/Creative Writing with WGST minor | University of Missouri (expected 2024)

 

Research and Teaching

Areas of Study:

  • Creative Writing
  • Women's and Gender Studies in English
Bio

Pronouns: she/her

Hayli May Cox is a PhD student of English/Creative Writing at The University of Missouri, though she's really a Michigander, and currently serves as an assistant nonfiction editor for Sundog Lit. Her work has found homes in Hippocampus Magazine, New Delta Review, DIAGRAM, Crab Fat Magazine, Sundog Lit, and others. In her free time Hayli paints, builds with Lego, and hikes around with a backpack full of field guides.

Awards and Honors

University of Missouri English Department

  • Creative Writing Program Award in Creative Nonfiction | 1st place                   2022
  • English Graduate Student Fellowship                                                                    2022
  • Hein & Emily Nguyen Award in Creative Writing                                                           2022
  • Margery McKinney Short Fiction Award | 1st place                                                          2022
  • William Peden Award in Teaching Creative Writing                                                       2022
  • Mahan Fiction Prize (honorable mention)                                                               2022
  • Gus Reid Award for Outstanding Teaching of Composition                                           2021
  • English Graduate Student Fellowship                                                                    2021
  • Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence                                2020

in Teaching Award (nomination)

  • Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship                                               2019

Northern Michigan University English Department

  • Outstanding Graduating MA Student Award                                                       2017
  • Excellence in Education Grant                                                                                2018
  • Excellence in Education Grant                                                                                2017
  • King-Chaves-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship                                                    2017
  • Outstanding Female Graduating Senior Award (nomination)                             2015
  • Outstanding Student Award (nomination)                                                              2015
  • Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in English (nomination)                         2015
  • Superior Edge Completion Certification (400+ hours in citizenship,                    2015

 diversity, leadership, and real world)                                    

Others

  • Pushcart Prize Nomination in Creative Nonfiction | Doubleback Review                        2021
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination in Fiction | Sundog Lit                                                            2019
  • 3rd Place Summer Writing Contest | The Gateway Review                                     2016
Selected Publications

“The Evelyns” | fiction | New Delta Review | Issue 12.1                                            2021

“Lashes” | nonfiction | DoubleBack Review | Issue 3:2                                              2021

“This, Here” | Essay Daily                                                                                          2021

Interview With Donovan Hohn | Author Interview | Assay Journal                          2021

“Vandals” | nonfiction | Doubleback Review                                                              2020

Review of Jayne Martin’s Tender Cuts | Grist                                                                       2020

“Menarche” | fiction | Sundog Lit                                                                               2019

“Micro Love” | nonfiction | Crab Fat Magazine                                                        2019

“♀” | nonfiction | HOOT                                                                                            2018

 “The Martyrs” | creative nonfiction | DIAGRAM                                                      2017

“Tithes” | fiction | Open Palm Print                                                                           2017

 “Bright Young Girl” | fiction | The Gateway Review                                                             2016

“The Larger Story” | Author Interview | Passages North                                          2016

       CNF prize winner Elizabeth Evitts Dickenson (Andrea Wuorenmaa co-writer)

“Self-Portrait” | creative nonfiction | Hippocampus Magazine                                  2015