Alice Turski received her MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught creative writing and literature. A finalist for the 2021 Gatewood Book Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Verse Daily, The Iowa Review, The Greensboro Review, Copper Nickel, Iron Horse Literary Review, and more. Her scientific writing has been published in journals like PNAS and Cell Reports. Alice has been awarded artist residencies from the Anna LaBastille Memorial and the La Napoule Art Foundation, and she is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of British Columbia.