Jocelyn Jane Cox's memoir, Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice, will be released by Vine Leaves Press on Sept. 30.
Centered around her son's zebra-themed first birthday party, Cox examines her experience of becoming a mother while losing her own to dementia and other ailments. She shares how she drew on strengths she learned on the ice as a competitive figure skater to get through this difficult time, demonstrates how we pass love from one generation to the next, and tells this multifaceted, "striped" story with both humor and heart.
Cox competed in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships four times and coached the sport for over two decades. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been widely published in national outlets, literary magazines and humor publications. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She has taught memoir, nonfiction, and fiction at All Ways Writing Collective, Lafayette Writers’ Studio and Gotham Writers Workshop, among others. She also helps writers complete their manuscripts as a book coach.
Cox lives with her son and husband in the Hudson Valley of New York.