Alice is a humor writer with work in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reductress, and elsewhere.

She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with her husband, sons, and cats Storm Drain and Crawlspace.

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Selected Writings

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

An Open Letter to My Breasts on Their Working Conditions and Recent Complaints of “Burnout”

Reductress (headline contributions)

“Uh Oh! Woman Fishing for Compliments Accidentally Catches Constructive Criticism”

“Woman Finds Insomnia Relief by Keeping Partner Awake Too”

“Cat Who Bit You Just Thought You Were Into Biting”

“Woman With ADHD”

“Relatable! Hurricane’s Weekend Plans Still All Over the Place"

“How to Prove Your Devotion to the Book by Refusing to Watch the TV Series” (Reductress Bookclub Instagram)

Points in Case

The Missing Diary of a Serial Killer, or Possibly of a Toddler-Parent (Selected as a 2024 People’s Favorite)

The Belladonna Comedy

Millennial Approved Alternatives to the Term “Advanced Maternal Age”

Excerpts from the Smash Hit Men’s Romantasy Novel, A Court of Mud and Monster Trucks

The Zookeeper’s Wife in Good Night, Gorilla Confronts Her Husband

Should We Have a Twenty-Third Child?

Naming Strategies for Hyphenated-Surnamed People Who Happen to Reproduce with Other Hyphenated-Surnamed People

Slackjaw Humor

WANTED: A Satisfying Answer to the Question, “What Did You Do at School Today?”

An Inquiry Regarding the Omission of “Nap Time”

At Tonight’s Performance of Antigone, the Role of the Chorus Will Be Played by a Swarm of Cicadas

Little Old Lady Comedy

“Ode to a Dog’s Bath”: A New Posthumous Collaboration of the 19th Century English Romantic Poets

Jane Austen’s Wastebasket

Young Lovers on a Roman Holiday or Demise of a Young Romantic Poet?

Other Classic Execution Methods for Red States to Revive (with Katie Burgess)