Praise for the work and legacy of Hugh Fox:

“ … a new sound built upon Whitman, Hart Crane, Ginsberg and Snyder that swirls into a kaleidoscope of American life, personal and public.”
—Choice

“Reading Hugh Fox … is a bit like getting on a bus with a ticket you’ve no idea to where, you are jostled, take some wild curves, have breath-taking vistas, get to where you’d never expected sometimes dazed, shaken up, sometimes laughing, never bored, always a little different than when you began.”
—Lyn Lifshin, poet and literary critic

“Like Charles Ives, like Herman Melville, Hugh Fox is an American original. There is no one else writing like him today.”
—Richard Morris

Hugh Fox was born in Chicago in 1932 and is one of the founders (along with Ralph Ellison, Anais Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Buckminster Fuller) of the Puschcart Prize for literature. He is a poet, novelist, archaeologist, and has published over 100 works, including Depths and Dragons, Home of the Gods, and Approaching / Acerando (poems written in Portuguese in Brazil, translated into English when Fox returned to the United States).

He was the founder and Board of Directors member of COSMEP, the International Organization of Independent Publishers, from 1968 until its death in 1996. Hugh was editor of Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry from 1968-1995 and Latin American editor of Western World Review & North American Review during the 1960s. He was former contributing reviewer for Smith/Pulpsmith and Choice. Hugh Fox is listed in Who’s Who: The Two Thousand Most Important Writers in the Last Millennium, Dictionary of Middlewestern Writers, and The International Who’s Who.