Alice Fogel's third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller in 2008, and in 2009 Strange Terrain (how to appreciate poetry without “getting” it) came out. Nominated 6 times for the Pushcart, her poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, and she has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and other awards.
Another collection, Interval: Poems Based Upon Bach’s Goldberg Variations, won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature andis forthcoming in March 2015. She is currently the NH State Poet Laureate.