Alice Anderson

Alice Anderson is the author of Some Bright Morning I’ll Fly Away, published by St. Martin’s Press. Her first collection of poems, Human Nature, was awarded both the Best First Book Prize from the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Prize for Emerging Writers from NYU. Her second collection of poems, The Watermark, was published in the UK and US simultaneously from Eyewear Publishing. With accolades from Goodhousekeeping, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and more, Anderson’s work is anthologized in On The Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists in America; American Poetry, The Next Generation; and in the 20th-anniversary edition of the classic, The Courage to Heal. A frequent visiting writer at colleges and universities across the nation, Anderson is also an advocate and public speaker, fighting for the rights of domestic violence survivors and those with traumatic brain injury. The recipient of a prestigious Haven Foundation Grant from Stephen King for writers recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury, Anderson is an editor and ghostwriter, and is at work on a third poetry collection and a novel.