Lois Cox is a former public servant. Like many women in That's What I Am, she married and had children before recognising herself as a lesbian. Now she divides her time between her house in Brooklyn, Wellington and an apartment in a cohousing development in Grey Lynn, Auckland. In recent years she has become a crime novelist, writing with her partner as Jennifer Palgrave. The One That Got Away, Rising Tide and Where the River Goes are all published by Town Belt Press.