Wilcox, Patricia, 1932-

Patricia Wilcox (1932-2002), poet and publisher, was born in Douglasville, Georgia on October 12, 1932. She married John Thomas Wilcox in 1955, and had three sons. Wilcox received her junior college degree from West Georgia College in 1951, and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory College in 1956. In 1975 she founded the Robinson Center Poetry Studio in Binghamton, New York and served as the director until 1979. She also established Iris Press, Inc. in 1975 and served as its editor and publisher until 1987. Wilcox has published several works of poetry, including A House by the Side of the Road (1975) under the pseudonym E.V. Austin, An Exile from Silence: Poems to God (1981) and Shaped Notes: Stories of Twentieth-Century Georgia (2001). Patricia Wilcox died on May 29, 2002.