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Biography

Alice Martin is a fiction writer, born and raised in North Carolina, and the author of <i>Westward Women </i>(St. Martin's Press 2026). Her creative work has appeared in the <i>Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, </i><i>Triangle House Review</i>, and elsewhere. She received her PhD in literature from Rutgers University, where she studied nineteenth-century American women's manuscript culture, focusing on everyday and anonymous women's writing in letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes. Her academic research has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Feminist Pedagogy</i>, and <i>J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. </i>Before returning to academia, she worked for years in commercial book publishing at Algonquin Books, Folio Literary, and Writers House, LLC. Now, she lives in Waynesville with her husband, son, attention-seeking cat, and too many typewriters.

Education

• Ph D, Rutgers State University of New Jersey Newark
• MA, Rutgers State University of New Jersey Newark
• MA, Rutgers State University of New Jersey Newark
• BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching Interests

Dr. Martin teaches courses on fiction writing, book publishing, and nineteenth-century American literature.

Research Interests

Dr. Martin often uses ordinary women's archival materials as inspiration for her creative writing. In her fiction, she explores topics of motherhood, female friendship, embodiment, and the desires of women who tend to disappear into our cultural records. She holds a special place in her heart for genre-bending, literary speculative fiction and the processes involved in novel writing. In her academic research, she is invested in anonymous nineteenth-century women's writing, manuscript genres, and social networks.