Joy Drury Cox received her Master of Fine Arts from University of Florida in 2006. She teaches a variety of art courses at UNC, including Photography and Collage. She has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally since 2003 and is the author of three artist books: Stranger, Old Man and Sea, and Or, Some of the Whale. In 2019, her work was included in the Atlanta Biennial, and her most recent solo exhibition, Prone and Plumb, opened in March of 2020 at Asphodel Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her works are included in various private and public collections, including the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.