Alice N. Persons

Alice Persons (born April 23, 1952) is an American poet. She was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, grew up on Army bases, and graduated from high school in Arlington, Virginia. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Oregon. In 1983, she moved to Portland, Maine to attend law school and earned a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law.

Career

Persons began writing poetry and publishing in small literary journals in the early 1980s. During and after law school, she took a long hiatus from writing. Her first poetry chapbook was Be Careful What You Wish For, published in 2003. The second, Never Say Never, came out in 2004. In 2007 her third chapbook was published, Don't Be A Stranger. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and eight of her poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio. She has published poems in various anthologies and online journals.

In 2003, she co-founded Moon Pie Press, a small poetry press, with Nancy A. Henry. Since 2006, she has continued the press alone. The press has published 40 books of poetry from poets all over the U.S.

Personal life

She currently lives in Westbrook, Maine, with 3 cats and a dog, and volunteers for animal welfare organizations. She also volunteers for Port Veritas, a performance organization based in Portland, Maine. Outside of writing, Persons has worked as a part-time instructor of business law at the University of Southern Maine in Portland since 1984.

External links

• MoonPiePress.com
• "Stealing Lilacs", a poem by Alice at Writersalmanac.org