Alice has worked as an aquarist, classroom teacher, boat captain, cruise ship hostess, coder, curriculum writer, bookseller, drone pilot, and scuba instructor. These days, her favorite adventures are writing, traveling, and hanging out with her family, friends, and dogs. She’s a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, lives on the front range of the Colorado Rockies, and is a finalist in the 2026 NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge (under the pen name Jane Snow; winners to be announced later in the fall).