Ragan Fox

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet; and then I laughed...really hard.

Ragan Cooper Fox (born May 9, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is a gay poet and performance artist who is a professor of communication at California State University, Long Beach. He received a B.S. and an M.A. (2001) from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. (2006) from Arizona State University.
He is the host of the podcast Fox and the City, which was heard weekly on Sirius Radio 103.

Fox and his work have been featured in Out and Genre magazines, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Topics, Frontiers, The Journal of Homosexuality, The Phoenix New Times, Cyber Socket, The Bottom Line, VelvetMafia.com, GetUnderground.com, LodestarQuarterly.com, the Austin-American Statesman, Echo magazine, and on Air America's Harrison on the Edge. Genre called Fox and the City a "huge hit",[citation needed] and Out has declared Fox as one of the "gays leading the way in online media's next big thing".

In 1994, he moved to Austin, Texas, where he attended the University of Texas. After performing a poetry program about spoken word poetry for a graduate class at UT, Fox was invited to feature at the Austin Poetry Slam.[citation needed] He eventually represented the city at three National Poetry Slams (2000, 2001, and 2002). He and his poetry have been featured in multiple venues, including the Nuyorican Poets Caf����¯�¿�½������© and the Bowery Poetry Club. Fox is also one of the original members of the Bullhorn Collective, an exclusive group that performs poetry at colleges and various events around the globe. In July 2002, Fox moved to Phoenix, Arizona to attend the doctoral program in Human Communication at Arizona State University. Throughout his doctoral studies, Fox continued to write poetry. In August of 2005, he advanced to the individual finals of the National Poetry Slam, where he finished third in the nation������¢���¯���¿���½���¯���¿���½the highest placement of an LGBTQ-identified individual poet in the tournament������¢���¯���¿���½���¯���¿���½s history. In the summer of 2005, Fox started a podcast, Fox and the City. Originally created to showcase work he intended to stage, the program eventually developed into an unscripted hodgepodge of personal narrative, pop culture observations, agitprop, and political commentary.

OTHER ARTIST WEBSITE:  www.raganfox.com

HOME TOWN: 
Hollywood, CA

INFLUENCES: 
Amy Sedaris, Courtney Love, Liz Phair

ON MY PLAYLIST:  N/A