Alice Lucia, nee Partridge, won her first writing contest for an essay at the age of 12 in Binghamton, New York where she was raised and attended school. She began to take her poetry seriously beginning in September 1984. In addition to her passion for writing, she loved reading, cooking, and gardening. Alice, a retired Registered Nurse, lived in S. Onondaga, N.Y. with her husband, and wrote poems and stories for 20 years before she died in 2014.