Alice B. Fogel

Alice B. Fogel (she/her) is the New Hampshire Poet Laureate emerita (2013–2019). During her tenure as state poet laureate, she established a Teen Poet Laureate position, among other initiatives. Originally from the Hudson Valley, she is a former theatrical costumer and clothing refashioner who earned a BA in art and literature from Antioch College and an MFA in poetry from the University of New Hampshire.

Fogel is the author of Nothing But: a series of indirect considerations on art & consciousness (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021); A Doubtful House (Bauhan Publishing, 2017); Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” (Schaffner Press, 2015), which won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and the 2016 New Hampshire Literary Award in Poetry; and Be That Empty (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). She is also the author of Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader (Hobblebush Books, 2009). She is a 12-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies, including the Best American Poetry 1993 (Collier Books) and Robert Hass’s Poet’s Choice (Ecco, 1998).

A former writer-in-residence at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site and Hypatia in the Woods, Fogel is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and other honors. She has been a reader or judge for numerous programs and publications, including Alice James Books, the Maine Arts Commission writing grants, Bauhan Publishing, and the Xochi Quetzal Artist Residency. She gives talks and workshops for all ages on reading and writing through the New Hampshire Councils on the Arts and the Humanities. Fogel lives in Walpole, New Hampshire; works as a professor and one-on-one as an academic coach with neurodiverse students at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont; and hikes mountains whenever possible.