Alice Anderson (born 1966) is an American poet. She is particularly known for her collection, Human Nature.
Biography
Alice Anderson was born May 20, 1966, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She spent her childhood in California and Mississippi. Anderson's work deals with issues that have impacted her life: family violence, intimate partner violence, and traumatic brain injury.
Anderson was living in Ocean Springs, Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina hit.
Anderson took a classes at California State University, Sacramento, receiving a BA in English. As an undergrad Anderson worked with the poet Dennis Schmitz who encouraged her to go to graduate school.
She received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.
Anderson's, multi-genre, oeuvre explores using language to reveal universal illuminations that arise from suffering.
Awards
1994 Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers
1994 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Prize
Works
Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir (St. Martin's Press, 2017) The Watermark (Eyewear Publishing, 2016) Human Nature (NYU Press, 1994)