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Meg Cox
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Meg Cox is a journalist and author who has been quilting for almost 20 years. The Quilter’s Catalog,
her third book, is the result of more than six years of research,
travel, interviewing and writing about the contemporary, high-tech
quilt scene.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Northwestern University, Meg worked as a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years in the Chicago and New York bureaus. Her career at the WSJ
included beats ranging from agriculture to culture. She interviewed
everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Queen Latifah and learned to harvest
corn for one of her first-person feature stories.
Meg left the Journal to write books when her son, Max, was born in 1994. Her first two books dealt with family traditions: The Heart of a Family: Searching America for New Traditions That Fulfill Us (Random House, 1998) and The Book of New Family Traditions: How to Create Great Rituals for Holidays & Everyday (Running Press, 2003).
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Meg has lectured widely on ritual and celebration, written for a range of national magazines including Worth, Ms., Cooking Light, Family Fun, Working Mother and Allure, and has worked as a corporate spokesperson on tradition for Pillsbury, KFC and Hallmark Cards. She’s been writing a free e-mail newsletter on family rituals for many years.
Since her mother taught her to quilt in 1989, Meg has made several dozen quilts by hand and by machine, many as gifts or for charity. Researching the book deepened her passion for quilting and quilt history and she has served on the board of the national nonprofit Alliance for American Quilts (www.centerforthequilt.org) since 2005. Currently, Meg is vice president of the AAQ. Meg lives with her husband and son in Princeton, New Jersey, where she belongs to the local quilt guild. Find out more at the author’s website, www.megcox.com.
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