Alice Templeton’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, North American Review, Poetry, 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.