Nationality 1: American

Birthdate: 1952

Alice Fulton was born on January 25, 1952, in Troy, New York. She majored in creative writing as an undergraduate at Empire State College, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and then attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she gained a master of fine arts in 1982. Since then, Fulton has taught writing at various schools, completing a long tenure at the University of Michigan and a year each at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004, she was asked to join her alma mater Cornell, where she was given the Ann S. Bowers chair as distinguished professor of English.

Fulton has published several books of poetry, including Palladium (1982), winner of the 1985 National Poetry Series and the 1987 Society of Midland Authors Award; Dance Script with Electric Ballerina (1982), winner of the 1982 Associated Writing Programs Award; Powers of Congress (1990), in...