Meg Cox

Meg Cox, journalist and author, learned quiltmaking from her mother in 1989 and has been a passionate quilter ever since. She spent six years researching and writing a resource guide for 21st century quilters, The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide (Workman Publishing, 2008). A working journalist since graduating from Northwestern University in 1975, Cox spent 17 years as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where her beats ran the gamut from agriculture to culture. Known nationally as an authority on family traditions, Cox has written two books on the topic, The Book of New Family Traditions (Running Press, 2003) and The Heart of A Family: Searching America for New Traditions That Fulfill Us (Random House, 1998). She has contributed articles to a wide range of national magazines and lectures frequently on both quilting and family traditions. Cox lives in Princeton, New Jersey with her husband Richard Leone, a foundation president, and their teenage son, Max.