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Elizabeth Wilcox

Biography

Elizabeth Wilcox

Elizabeth Wilcox has worked as a journalist in England, Hong Kong and the US. She has extensive experience both nationally and internationally as a newspaper columnist, radio presenter, CNBC television news producer and web producer. Her first book THE MOM ECONOMY (Berkley, 2003) was called “One of the best career books of 2003” by syndicated columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy. Wilcox currently specializes in content development and strategy for educational organizations that promote social and emotional learning in early childhood and trauma-informed practices for youth.

Elizabeth Wilcox

Books by Elizabeth Wilcox

The Long Tail of Trauma: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Wilcox - Memoir, Nonfiction

This multigenerational memoir explores author Elizabeth Wilcox's maternal history of repeated trauma, separation, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their impact on mental health. Set against a 20-year dialogue with her mother Barbara, who suffers from long undiagnosed PTSD, THE LONG TAIL OF TRAUMA opens with the birth of Wilcox's illegitimate grandmother Violet to a German house servant outside London in 1904. With her mother’s encouragement, she goes on to trace the lives of Violet and Barbara, both of whom are deeply impacted by maternal separation and the complex trauma they have endured because of war. Through a dual timeline that is both present day and historic, Wilcox weaves together the documented and imagined voices of the women who precede her.