Todd Michael Cox

Todd Michael Cox was born in the northwoods of Wisconsin, raised in the small town of Oconto, and obtained a degree in English from UW-Oshkosh. He has been writing for most of his life, and although he’s had short pieces published here and there he considers the novel to be his natural medium. His work ranges from comic adventures (like Dizzlemuck) to darker studies of death, mourning, and the loss and recapture of innocence in modern day America (such as After the Death of the Ice Cream Man and Iowa).

A novel like Of Reptiles and Amphibians shows his interest in small moments, and the poetry of subtle things.

He counts Edward Abbey, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, Hunter S. Thompson, Harper Lee, Katherine Dunn, Norman Mailer, Robert Michael Pyle, Wallace Stegner, William Faulkner, Orson Welles, On Fillmore, old barns, and skulls and bones among his varied influences.

Todd is also an avid herper and wildlife lover, as well as a musician. His spoken-word project, Ripe For Shaking, has been included on a CD compilation from the Journal of Experimental Fiction called ATTOHO (After They Tore Our Heads Off). That track, “Yesterday’s News,” even made it onto New Zealand radio.

His popular Wisconsin Unhuggables blog, originally hosted by Wisconsin Trails magazine, was a collection of his thoughts and perceptions regarding the lesser-loved critters of the world. Todd was a featured guest on the Joy Cardin Show on Wisconsin Public Radio in Spring of 2013 to talk about these critters and his interest in them.

He is the founder of the Snake Anti-Defamation League.

To contact him, send emails to sybilpressbooks@gmail.com