Alice Landrum was born in Franklin, Kentucky. She received a B. A. In French from Harding University, an M.D. from University of Arkansas School of Medicine, and an M.F.A. in writing at Lindenwood University. After thirty years in medicine, she retired as an associate professor emerita of clinical anesthesiology from the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri. Her short stories have appeared in Ignatian Literary Magazine, Medicine and Meaning, Potato Soup Journal, Round Table Literary Journal, and Well Versed. She lives in mid-Missouri with her spouse and a very spoiled orange tabby cat.