Alice Turski received her MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught as a Teaching Fellow. A finalist for the 2021 Gatewood Book Prize, her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, The Iowa Review, The Greensboro Review, Copper Nickel, Iron Horse Literary Review and more. Her poetry collection, Stolen Plums, was published with Vehicule Press in 2025. Her scientific writing has been published in journals like PNAS and Cell Reports, and Alice has been awarded artist residencies from the Anna LaBastille Memorial, La Napoule Art Foundation, The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and more.