Poet and writer Alice Fulton was born in Troy, New York in 1952. She earned a BA from Empire State College and an MFA from Cornell University. She is the author of numerous books, including the collections Coloratura on a Silence Found in Many Expressive Systems (2022); Barely Composed (2015); The Nightingales of Troy (2008), a collection of linked stories; and Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (2004). Fulton has received many honors and awards for her work. Her book Felt (2001) received the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and has also received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University.