Emily Cox is a puzzle writer. She and her partner, Henry Rathvon, write "The Puzzler," a cryptic crossword featured each month in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly. They also create acrostic puzzles for the New York Times, Sunday crosswords for the Boston Globe, cryptic crosswords for Canada's National Post, and puzzles for the US Airways in-flight magazine, Attache.

A further Emily Cox is a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Moseley and Kings Heath Ward on Birmingham City Council.