Alicia is the author of two poetry books - Fruit Geode (a New York Times Book Review New & Notable selection) and Divinity School (selected by C.D. Wright for the 2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) - and Even God Had Bad Parenting Days, a collection of short personal essays about early parenthood and Jewish spirituality (Behrman House). She holds a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a MA in Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary, has taught in the poetry MFA program at Portland State University, and is the recipient of literary fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Literary Arts.