Alice Kavounas lives on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, following an intensely urban life in NY and London. She is a tutor with the Poetry School, London, and is married to British historian Frederick Taylor. Born in Manhattan to Greek parents, Alice read English Literature at Vassar. On graduation, she moved to London to begin, completely by chance, a career as an advertising copywriter at JWT in Berkeley Square. She confesses to never having heard a nightingale sing. But she was pleased to see that several poets held down a day job there, and it was in London that her own poems began to take flight.