Craig Cox

Managing Editor

In an eclectic journalism career spanning three decades, Craig has edited newspapers, magazines, books and Web sites. He has worked as an editor at the Utne Reader, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Business Ethics magazine, Minnesota Parent, City Pages and the Twin Cities Daily Planet. His writing has appeared in dozens of local, regional and national publications, and his reporting and editing have been recognized with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Knight Foundation and the National Press Club. He and his wife, Sharon Parker, founded and operated The Minneapolis Observer, a monthly citywide newspaper, and in their spare time publish MOQ, a quarterly zine that “explores the bucolic city” of Minneapolis.

Craig earned a BA in journalism and English from the University of Minnesota and is the author of Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture (Rutgers University Press, 1994). He and Sharon live with their two children, Nora, 20, and Martin, 18, in south Minneapolis.

Learn more about Craig in his blog, Pumping Irony, or contact him at ccox1@experiencelifemag.com.

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