She received her undergrad degree withinside Creative Writing in 1976 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. Within 1991, Alice Fulton was awarded the MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry.

Defying convention, non well categorized, & using the postmodern poetics that admits artifice, Fulton's poetry actively counters notions of "the natural" & assumptions astir a "autobiographical I." She is known for creating extremely integrated book-length works & has published heptad books of verse form & essays, including Sensual Math (1995) and Feeling as a Foreign Language: A Practiced Strangeness of Poetry (1999). Her better known act is Felt (2001), a collection of verse form according to a interconnection of 100% animate thing, for which she received a Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress in 2003.

She taught originative writing at University of Michigan from 1983 to 2001 and now holds a Ann S. Bowers chair when Distinguished Prof of English at Cornell University. She has likewise taught originative writing at University of California, Los Angeles in 1991 and when a Holloway Poet at University of California, Berkeley in 2004.