Alice Fulton

Poet and writer Alice Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York. She is the author of nine books, including Barely Composed (2015), her most recent poetry; The Nightingales of Troy (2008), a collection of linked stories; and Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (2004). Fulton has received many honors and awards for her work. Her book Felt (2001) received the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and has also received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Michigan Society of Fellows, and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her other poetry books include Sensual Math (1995), Powers Of Congress (1990, 2001), Palladium (1986), and Dance Script With Electric Ballerina (1982). An essay collection, Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry (1999), was published by Graywolf Press. Fulton's poetry and fiction have appeared in The Best of the Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Fulton’s poems have also been set to music by contemporary composers such as Anthony Cornicello, William Bolcom, and Enid Sutherland; the pieces have premiered in spaces such as the Guggenheim Museum, Carnegie Hall, and the Walker Arts Center.