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Award-winning poet and fiction writer, and Troy native

Tuesday, November 11

Alice Fulton, Troy native and major contemporary American poet, is the author of The Nightingales of Troy (2008)— a humorous, deeply moving first collection of stories that take place in her home city. Composed of ten interlinked tales, the book features four generations in the family of the colorful Garrahan sisters and their female descendants. In advance praise, Alison Lurie said, “The Nightingales of Troy should establish [Fulton] as one of the best writers of fiction working today.” Winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” Fulton is best-known for poetry that explores the semi-random processes of the human mind. Her most recent poetry collection is Felt (2001), winner of the Bobbitt National Prize of the Library of Congress. The New York Times reviewer said, “In poems obsessed with identity, yearning and intimacy, the power of Fulton’s verbal pyrotechnics is that they precisely animate these mutable, ever-changing states.” Other prizes include the Poetry Society of America’s Emily Dickinson and Consuelo Ford Awards, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the National Poetry Series Prize.

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