Floyce Alexander

Floyce Alexander was born in Arkansas and grew up in Washington State. He attended the University of Washington, where he studied with Theodore Roethke and David Wagoner. He worked as an editor for Washington State University Press in the sixties and was in Mexico City in 1968, when the campesino-student resistance movement culminated in massive violence, an event evoked in his volume Bottom Falling Out of the Dream, and nominated by Gwendolyn Brooks for the Pulitzer Prize. He has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts and a PhD from the University of New Mexico. He lives and writes now in Bimidji, Minnesota.