Alice Lichtenstein received a MFA from Boston University where she was named the Boston University Fellow in Creative Writing. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and the Barbara Deming Award in Fiction. She has twice been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Alice is the author of three novels: THE GENIUS OF THE WORLD (Zoland Books, 2000); LOST, (Scribner, 2010); and THE CRIME OF BEING (Upper Hand Press, 2019). LOST was a longlist Finalist for the Dublin IMPAC International Award in Fiction.
 
Lichtenstein’s story, “Revision,” was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize Award. She has published stories in several literary journals, including Narrative Magazine, Post Road, Short Story and Digital Americana.
 
Lichtenstein teaches fiction-writing at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. She has also taught fiction-writing at Boston University, Wheaton College, Lesley College and the Harvard University Summer School.

Books by Alice Lichtenstein

The Crime of Being

by Alice Lichtenstein - Fiction

On a Good Friday in a picturesque village in Upstate New York, the spring weather is unusually warm and school is closed. It's an ideal day for tanning and partying in the park until Shawnee Padrushky, age 17, drives up in his dad's new pick-up and comes out shooting with one victim in mind --- Gunther Smith --- the only black student in Shawnee's class, the adopted son of white parents. THE CRIME OF BEING explores the effects of a racial incident --- how it divides a seemingly homogenous community over the course of a summer and exposes its dark secrets. Tarred by the media as “the most racist town in America,” the people of Liberty face tangled questions of whether racism or insanity was at the root of a white teenager's violent assault of his black classmate, and whether the community as a whole can be implicated.