Alice Deberry KaneAlice DeBerry Kane holds a BA degree from UC Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies and an MFA from Bennington College, Vermont. A lifelong reader, writer and teacher of same, she continues to write because she enjoys the connection with readers if only imagined. As for a writer's dream life, Alice learned early on that book tours, readings, probing questions and late nights, conflicted with her desire for solitude. And as for boxes of yellowed manuscripts stacked in storage, she quotes novelist Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. Read More Read Less