Alice Anderson is the author of the national bestselling memoir, Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away, which was published in fall of 2017 from St. Martin’s Press and was recently optioned for film. Anderson’s second poetry collection, The Watermark, was published in the UK and US simultaneously from Eyewear Publishing. A bestselling first collection of poems, Human Nature, was awarded both the Best First Book Prize from the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Prize from NYU.

Anderson has also had work appear in such publications as The Rumpus, Goodhousekeeping, Literary Hub, Poem of the Week, The Manifest-Station, Electric Lit, New Letters, CUTTHROAT, The New York Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, AGNI, and more. Anderson’s work is anthologized in places such as: On The Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists in America; and American Poetry, The Next Generation. Anderson is currently at work on a third poetry collection, a novel, and an original series.

Anderson has taught writing at universities, colleges, workshops across the country, setting student’s own work afire with truth and bravery. A New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, Anderson is also a former executive for a major book retailer and former acquisitions editor at Random House. With more than twenty years of publishing experience, Alice offers unique insight into all aspects of the publishing process. While at Random House, she shepherded books in the memoir, nonfiction, business, entertainment genres. In her time as a book reviewer for the New Orleans Times Picayune, Alice tackled literary and commercial fiction, as well as poetry. She has been a visiting professor at more than thirty colleges, including St. Mary’s College, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, DePauw University, Hope College, and Antioch University.

Alice has ghostwritten books by American fashion icons, music industry insiders, internationally known feminists, and everyday people with extraordinary stories. Her work as an editor is meticulous and transformative, and her clients sell books to major publishers such as Counterpoint, Hachette, Macmillon, WW Norton, Penguin Random House, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.