About the Author

Alice Shapiro is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Douglasville, GA. Her first collection of poems, Cracked: Timeless Topics of Nature, Courage, and Endurance (Total Recall Press 2009), earned her a Pushcart Prize nomination and Georgia Author of the Year nomination (2010). Her second collection, Life, Descending/Ascending, also published by Total Recall Press, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim and her one-act play Four Voices won the Bill C. Davis Drama Award for a verse play and was performed as part of the first annual Turner Cassity Literary Festival, July 2011. Alice is Executive Producer of a TV competition for poets, and was one of the judges for Poetry Out Loud's 2010 and 2011 regionals. She serves on the planning board for the Turner Cassity Literary Festival.