Alice Rose was born in November. Pales of wind had covered the city streets with burgundy leaves. Soon after the autumn rain dripped, sticking the abandoned foliage to the pavement, like fresh bloody paint.

Alice grew up in Bucharest. Before settling in Los Angeles, she lived in Italy, Germany, Finland, and Canada.

A member of the Authors Guild of America, Alice is the author of a monograph on Romanian arts, popular culture, and everyday life, Fragmented Identities published by Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, 2007 (and signed Denise Roman). In June 2005, the actors of the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles read scenes  from her surrealist/absurdist play, Voyage to the Moon. 
Alice has also published in the U.S. her father's child Holocaust memoir The Violinist.

Alice has taken classes in film, fiction, poetry, and play writing in the Film and Writers' Programs at UCLA - although she told and published stories and wrote poetry ever since she lived back in Bucharest. She published her first story in the "Ion Creanga" high-school journal "Ramuri" (Boughs) at eleven.

In her writing, Alice blends Eastern European surrealist and North American realist traditions. She likes the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, Charles Simic, Lucian Blaga, and Paul Verlain, as well as the absurd theater of Eugene Ionesco. Some of the authors of children's books who have influenced Alice's writing are Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm, Carlo Collodi, Edmondo de Amicis, Jules Verne, Hector Malot, Mark Twain, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, Petre Ispirescu, and Shahrazad.

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Preview of map for the revised edition