Alice Lichtenstein graduated from Brown University and was named the Boston University Fellow in Creative Writing, where she earned an M.A. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and has twice been a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She is the author of The Genius of the World. Alice has taught at Boston University, Wheaton College, Lesley College, and the Harvard University Summer School. She now teaches at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
Alice Lichtenstein graduated from Brown University and was named the Boston University Fellow in Creative Writing, where she earned an M.A. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and has twice been a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She is the author of The Genius of the World. Alice has taught at Boston University, Wheaton College, Lesley College, and the Harvard University Summer School. She now teaches at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
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