Current Skate of Mind

I am a figure skating coach and former national competitor in Ice Dance and Pair with my older brother. I grew up in a tiny farm town in Wisconsin, population 3,000 (we trained in Madison, WI, Janesville, WI, and then at the University of Delaware) and now I live in New York City. Before coaching became my full-time gig, I sold books in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; peddled T-shirts on the streets of Galway, Ireland;  wrote advertising copy for gold mines in Denver, Colorado; pleasantly answered phones while wearing a headset in Boston; and taught writing to fourth graders and college students at various schools around New York. I started playing ice hockey in college, at the University of Pensylvania, and still sometimes play on women’s leagues. My two favorite forms of punctuation are Ellipses and Parentheses (but this is probably obvious…)

I hold a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a concentration in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. I am currently working on a memoir called “Skate At Your Own Risk” about competing in both dance and pair with my brother: the anxieties, the disappointments, the many injuries, and, of course, lots of laughter. I have also started working on a book called, “It’s Good to Have Goals” about women’s ice hockey. My writing has appeared in JANE,  Roanoke Review, Literal Latte, Professional Skater Magazine, icenetwork.com, and the White Plains Times, among other publications. I have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and anthologized in Tartts 2 by Livingston Press.

 I can be contacted directly at jocelynjanecox at yahoo.   

Some of my non-skating pieces can be found at:

http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/05/eggs_on_the_bru.html

http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2006/10/the_warning_lab.html 

http://www.pindeldyboz.com/jjcliza.htm 

http://www.literal-latte.com/cgi/cginews.pl?record=55

 Thank you for reading.