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Pocatello Chapter
Idaho Writers' League
Lifetime Service Award Winner
2007
Alice Dunn, a native of Arimo, Bannock County, Idaho, spent the major part of her adult life in Humbolt County, California, where she and her husband owned and operated a pharmacy. A graduate of Idaho State University in Home Economics-Education (1953), Alice also earned a masters degree at Humboldt State University in English Literature (1984).
She is the mother of six children and has been a school teacher, a county extension agent, a flunky at the pharmacy, manager of a hardware store she and her husband owned, and caregiver to her and her husband's aging parents.
She has written since childhood and was first published in a national high school poetry anthology in 1948. In her first career as a home economist, she wrote a regular column for the Pocatello Tribune, and she wrote a community column for the Humboldt Beacon. Her church service put her in a position requiring writing and directing several short musical comedies (Roadshows). This led to directing several full-length musical comedies, mostly Broadway shows but one for which she developed the ideas and wrote the libretto. She has written other stage plays that remain unproduced.
Following receiving the masters degree, Alice set to writing in earnest. In 1994, shortly after returning to Pocatello, she joined IWL for the benefits of a writing support group. Since then, scarcely a year has passed without her entering IWL writing contests. She has won many prizes for he writing and was awarded the League's Lifetime Service Award in 2007. She shies away from leadership positions in the League but is willing to do the grunt work.
She hopes someday to publish her imaginative writing but so far has succeeded only with nonfiction and received actual money for only one article. She writes poetry, short stories, articles, essays, dramas, children's books, and countless letters to the editor and is working on a novel with at least one more lined up--should she live so long.
Alice has edited Leagazette two different years and edited Pearls in Poetry and Prose, the anthology of writings by Pocatello Chapter members published in 2007. She is often called upon to critique the writings of her children, grandchildren (23 + 8 step-grand-children + 5 great-grandchildren) and friends who aspire to better writing.
Updated: October 15, 2007
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