Alice FultonAlice Fulton's first fiction collection, The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories, was published by W.W. Norton in July. Her most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. Felt (W.W. Norton 2001) was awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. This biennial poetry prize is given on behalf of the nation in recognition of the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years. Felt also was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001 and as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her other books include Sensual Math (W.W. Norton); Powers Of Congress (Sarabande Books, reissue 2001); Palladium (University of Illinois), winner of the 1985 National Poetry Series and the 1987 Society of Midland Authors Award; and Dance Script With Electric Ballerina (University of Illinois, reissue 1996), winner of the 1982 Associated Writing Programs Award. A collection of prose, Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry, was published by Graywolf Press in 1999.She has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been included in five editions of the Best American Poetry series and in the 10th Anniversary edition, The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997. She has received Pushcart Prizes in poetry and in fiction, the Bess Hokin award from Poetry, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from Southwest Review, and the Emily Dickinson and Consuelo Ford Awards from the Poetry Society of America. Poems also have appeared in Poetry, the New Yorker, Parnassus, the Paris Review, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines. Her short story, "Queen Wintergreen," was selected by Louise Erdrich for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories and anthologized in Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish Women's Writing. Another story, "Happy Dust," was awarded the 1997 Editor's Prize in Fiction by the Missouri Review. "The Real Eleanor Rigby" was selected for the Pushcart Prize XXIX anthology. Alice Fulton was the 2004 Holloway Poet at University of California, Berkeley. She has been a Visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles; Ohio State University, Columbus; and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She was a member of the American Delegation at the 1988 Chinese/American Writers' Conference, held in Beijing, Xian, Leshan, Wuhan, and Shanghai, People's Republic of China. She has been honored with the university-wide Henry Russel Award for promise of distinction in writing and excellence in teaching from The University of Michigan, and with an honorary Doctor of Letters from the State University of New York. She is currently the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. From cornell.edu. Videos
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