Fox, Faulkner

Faulkner Fox is an American author and feminist who teaches creative writing at Duke University. Her first book, Dispatches From a Not-So-Perfect Life, deals with aspects of new motherhood, such as fear and isolation.

Fox was raised in West Point, Virginia, a small mill town. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1986. While in college and also after college, Fox held a variety of jobs including peer contraceptive counselor, high school French teacher, and tour guide at New Orleans's The Voodoo Museum. She has also researched housing and treatment for the [Page 425]mentally ill as well as women's alternative spiritual practices, a subject for which she was issued a grant from Radcliff College to pursue. Fox also earned a ...