Alice was born in Osaka, Japan in the sixties.  Her parents were Presbyterian career missionaries. As a young child, Alice loved to walk down to the local stationer's store to buy notebooks, pencils and scented erasers.  In her room, she created stories.  The desire to be a published famous author has never left her.  Well, two out of three isn't bad. She's the author of Rain Song, How Sweet It Is, Hatteras Girl and A Wedding Invitation (all published by Bethany House).

Alice went to Eastern Mennonite University after graduating from Canadian Academy, an international high school in Kobe, Japan. She majored in social work and has worked across the U.S. in that field.  She taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in Japan and at a refugee camp in the Philippines.  She also studied Spanish at a language institute in San Jose, Costa Rica.

She has four children--Rachel, Daniel, Benjamin and Elizabeth.  Daniel died on 2/2/97 from cancer treatments at the age of four. Since then, Alice founded Daniel's House Publications in her son's memory.  This organization reaches out to others who have also lost a child to death. In 2000 and 2003, Alice compiled recipes and memories of children across the world to publish two memorial cookbooks, Slices of Sunlight and Down the Cereal Aisle. 

Alice has had articles published in the following publications:

Back Home Magazine

ByLine Magazine

Personal Journaling

The Upper Room

Canadian Writer's Journal

Alive Now

Chicken Soup for the Soul:  Grieving and Recovery

Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul

The Complete Guide to Hiring a Literary Agent

Feminine Writes

The Bond Between a Mother and a Son Lasts Forever (Blue Mountain Arts)

Carolina Parent

Sydney's Child Magazine

Carolina Woman (winner of the 2001 Writer's Contest)

Bereavement Magazine

Living With Loss Magazine

We Need Not Walk Alone

Span Connection

Alice presents online writing courses----Writing the Heartache---and workshops across the country.  She also has a line of remembrance cards.  She is a contributing writer at Open to Hope and at the Raleigh Examiner where she writes on grief and loss. Her two blogs are Wriitng the Heartache and Alice's Patchwork Quilt.

Alice met Carl on the Internet and they were married in Vegas on 2/7/2009. They live in Durham, NC with kids and dogs.