Alice Shapiro is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Douglasville, Georgia. She has been writing since 1985 when she studied poetry and playwriting under William Packard at NYU. Her poetry credits include a chapbook, Seasons of the Heart with Scars Publications (2007), Cracked: Timeless Topics of Nature, Courage and Endurance (TotalRecall Press 2009), Life: Descending / Ascending (TotalRecall Press 2010), and Saltian (unbound CONTENT Press 2011).