Alice Notley
April 28–29, 2025
Bio
Alice Notley is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including
165 Meeting House Lane (1971),
How Spring Comes (1981), which received the San Francisco Poetry Award,
Waltzing Matilda (1981),
Selected Poems of Alice Notley (1993),
The Descent of Alette (1996), among many others.
Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) won the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her collection
Disobedience (2001) was awarded the Griffin
International Poetry Prize. Notley’s recent work includes
Alma, or the Dead Women (2006),
Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005,
which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and
Certain Magical Acts (2016).
Notley has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize. In 2015, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She earned a BA
from Columbia University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
She currently lives in Paris, France.