Alice Sherman Simpson

ALICE SHERMAN SIMPSON, daughter of a legendary eccentric vaudeville dancer, is an accomplished visual artist who taught drawing and design at F.I.T, NY, The School of Visual Arts, The New School and Otis College of Art & Design. Her unique, handmade artist books about dance are in more than forty private and international Rare Book collections including; Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts, Yale, Harvard, and The Victoria & Albert Library.

ALICE SHERMAN SIMPSON is the author of THE WINTHROP AGREEMENT (Harper-November, 2023) and debut novel BALLROOM (Harper-2015). “Guy Ryan” was short-listed for Short-Fiction Award and appears in Jerry Jazz Musician Magazine (May, 2023) "Eldridge Street, 1902" and "Aboard the Coastal Starlight" appear in Persimmon Tree Magazine. "Dreams of Buenos Aires" was published by Words & Images Journal (U of Southern Maine). Writer’s Voice (NY) nominated BALLROOM for Best New American Voices.

A former New Yorker, she now lives in Southern California…and dances tango.