Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton (born in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet and author.

She received an undergraduate degree in 1978 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry.

Defying convention, not easily categorized, and employing a postmodern poetics that admits artifice, Fulton's poetry actively counters notions of "the natural" and assumptions about the "autobiographical I." She is known for creating highly structured book-length works and has published seven books of poems and essays, including "Sensual Math" (1995) and "Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry" (1999). Her most recent volume of new poetry is "Felt" (2001), a collection of poems based on the interconnectedness of all living things, for which she received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress in 2003. A volume of previously published selected poems entitled "Cascade Experiment" appeared in 2004. Fulton is also a lauded writer of short fiction, with stories appearing in volumes of "Best American Short Stories 1993" and "Pushcart Prize XXIX."

She taught creative writing at University of Michigan from 1983 to 2001 and now holds the Ann S. Bowers chair as Distinguished Professor of English at Cornell University. She has also taught creative writing at University of California, Los Angeles in 1991 and as the Holloway Poet at University of California, Berkeley in 2004.

Works

Fiction

*"The Nightingales of Troy" (2008)

Poetry

*"Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems" (2004)
*"Felt" (2001) winner of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in (2002)
*"Sensual Math" (1995)
*"Powers of Congress" (1990)
*"Palladium" (1986) winner of the National Poetry Series and the Society of Midland Authors Award in 1986
*"Dance Script with Electric Ballerina" (1983) winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award in (1982)
*"Anchors of Light" chapbook (1979)

Prose

*"Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry" (1999)

External links

* [http://people.cornell.edu/pages/af89/ Alice Fulton home page with brief biography]
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/45 Alice Fulton at the Academy of American Poets]
* [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~slippage/ Alice Fulton at University of Michigan']
* [http://www.nortonpoets.com/fultona.htm Alice Fulton at Norton Poets Online]
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200407u/int2004-07-13 Atlantic online interview]