Dede Fox

Until Covid, from 2016-2019, Dede Fox was the NEA/DOJ Writer-in-Residence at the Bryan Federal Prison Camp for Women. She is also the 2017-2022 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Texas. Her work-in-progress for those years is a collection of photos and poems about the first twenty-four public arts benches in The Woodlands, her hometown for the las... t forty years. She has presented many of the poems at Art Feels events sponsored by The Woodlands Arts Council. Dede's published poetry includes three books: Confessions of a Jewish Texan, Postcards Home, and On Wings of Silence: Mexico '68. Her poem "Chapultepec Park: September 25, 1968," which won the Christina Sergeyevna Award at the Austin International Poetry Festival, served as the catalyst for her novel in verse set in Mexico. Dede's poetry also appears in Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems, di-verse-city, The Enigmatist, Far Out: Poems of the 60's, Houston Poetry Fest, Poetica, Sol, A Summer's Poems, Swirl, Texas Poetry Calendar, Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston , and the Friendswood Library Ekphrastic Poetry anthologies, where she was a juried poet in 2020 and 2021. Children's writing credits include The Treasure in the Tiny Blue Tin, which received the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award and was later listed in Linda Silver's Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens. Highlights Magazine has published several of Dede's nonfiction articles. Her book reviews have appeared in the Concho River Review, The Texas Observer, and Lone Star Literary Life blog. A native Texan, Dede attended the University of the Americas in Mexico City and graduated with a BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis. She earned an MEd in Supervision from SFASU. She continues her writing education with InPrint Houston, SCBWI, The Writing Barn, and Highlights Foundation workshops. A retired teacher and librarian, Dede Fox is a board member on the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council, and she organizes poetry competitions ...Read More