Alicia J Rouverol is a writer, scholar and lecturer. Her first co-authored book, ‘I Was Content and Not Content’: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry (SIU, 2000), was nominated for the OHA Book Award and called ‘a compassionate and sorely needed book’ by The New York Times and nominated for the Oral History Book Award. Dry River, released by Bridge House Publishing in 2023, is her first novel. Alicia J Rouverol’s fiction focuses on issues explored previously through folklore, oral history and nonfiction: worker culture, time and the effects of economic decline.
She has received grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Society of Authors’ Foundation for her collaborative oral history-performance project in a correctional setting, the Brown Creek Life Review Project, nominated for the Helen and Martin Schwartz Humanities Prize. Her documentary work has been funded by foundations, arts and humanities councils, and housed in archives across the US, e.g. the Library of Congress and UC-Berkeley.
Teaching:
Researching and Planning a Novel; Writer’s Workshop; Final Portfolio; Experimental Practice