ALICE K. BOATWRIGHT
What students say...
"I appreciated your generous, supportive teaching style and helpful advice. After all my years away from writing classes, I was pretty fearful in the beginning. But you really created an encouraging and friendly environment. You made it easy. Thank you."
"I loved your classes and miss them – your generosity, the time and care you gave to all of us, the encouragement of our writing – will always astound me. I sent that 2nd draft of Phoebe and Jane to the Prague Summer Writers Workshop as a fluke, and was blown away when they said I could come."
"I enjoyed both classes that I took with you and now feel that I have considerably more direction in writing than I had when I started."
"I have enjoyed your class tremendously. It seems clear that you are passionate about teaching, which is why, in addition to your generosity in supporting others as writers, you are such an effective teacher. Most of all, I love your perspective that everyone has something to offer as a writer."
Writing has been a lifelong passion...
Alice K. Boatwright’s fiction has appeared in anthologies of women’s writing published by Crossing Press and fiction journals such as Mississippi Review, Paterson Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Enterzone, Penumbra, San Josè Studies, America West, Storyglossia, Amarillo Bay, and Stone Canoe.
Ms. Boatwright studied writing at Syracuse University (B.A.) and received an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Cummington Community of the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Hedgebrook.
In 2006, her book Leaving Vietnam was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and her novella Leaving Vietnam: 1993 was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open Contest. In 2007, her story “Behavior Modification” was nominated by the editors of Amarillo Bay for the Million Writers Award, recognizing the best fiction published on the web.
As a nonfiction writer and journalist, Alice has published nearly 100 by-line articles on subjects ranging from women’s microeconomic development programs in Southeast Asia to the inner workings of a New England truck stop.
Alice taught writing at UC Berkeley for more than 10 years and now lives in Paris part-time. She is represented by Talia R. Cohen of the Laura Dail Literary Agency in New York.
