Alice Templeton

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: San Francisco, CA

Year at Millay: 2001

Awards/Honors: Prize Winner, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod International Journal, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK (2020); Prize Winner, New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY (2008).

Website: https://alicetempleton.com/

Alice Templeton’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in Asheville Poetry ReviewBellingham ReviewCalyxNimrodNorth American ReviewPoetry, and other publications. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her collection of poems The Infinite Field was recently published by Sixteen Rivers Press in April 2024. A lifelong academic and college professor, she is also the author of a scholarly book on Adrienne Rich’s poetics (The Dream and the Dialogue) and articles on contemporary poetics and literary theory. Originally from Tennessee, Alice has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2002.