ABOUT ALICE BINGHAM GORMAN

Alice Bingham Gorman is a writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Her writing has been published in Vogue, O, the Oprah Magazine, O’s Little Book of Love and Friendship, The Louisville Review and countless regional periodicals and art publications. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, she divides her time between Maine and Florida. Valeria Vose, her first novel, won the 2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards Gold Medal in Southern Regional Fiction. Daffodils in December is her first publication of poetry.

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Daffodils in December: Poems from an Unexpected Life

Alice Bingham Gorman (2025)
$10 softcover

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In Daffodils in December: Poems from an Unexpected Life, Alice Bingham Gorman’s beautifully crafted poems take readers from the poet’s early childhood to her eighties.

Praise for Daffodils in December

Heartful and genuine, these poems collectively and consciously render the earned wisdom and joys of a life well-worth living with all its emotional complexities.
–Richard Blanco, author of Homeland of My Body

Lively and smart, with unexpected metaphors and a beautifully relaxed voice, surprise images abound in Alice Gorman’s wonderful collection, Daffodils in December.
–Molly Peacock, author of The Widow’s Crayon Box

Alice Gorman’s commitment to the imagination, thespirit, and love guides her through doubts, guilt, and grief, leaving open, through it all, “the gift of possibility.”
–Jeffrey Harrison, author of Between Lakes

“…the book is enriched by Gorman’s wisdom and compassion: Brava.”

ROXANA ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF SPARTA

“You literally can’t put this book down.”

LEE SMITH, AUTHOR OF DIMESTORE: A WRITERS LIFE

“What makes the narrative exceptional is its nuanced approach to Mallie’s spiritual transformation.”

KIRKUS REVIEWS

“A deep dive into multi-layered truth.”

THE RT. REV. CHILTON KNUDSEN, FORMER BISHOP OF MAINE

“Valeria’s story is that of so many women of a certain generation.”

ROBIN LIPPINCOTT, AUTHOR OF BLUE TERRITORY: A MEDITATION ON THE LIFE AND ART OF JOAN MITCHELL

“A brilliant, heartbreaking, and affirming story.”

ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH, AUTHOR OF THE REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE LADY

“…the book is enriched by Gorman’s wisdom and compassion: Brava.”

ROXANA ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF SPARTA

“A deep dive into multi-layered truth.”

THE RT. REV. CHILTON KNUDSEN, FORMER BISHOP OF MAINE

“A brilliant, heartbreaking, and affirming story.”

ELIZABETH STUCKEY-FRENCH, AUTHOR OF THE REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE LADY

“Valeria’s story is that of so many women of a certain generation.”

ROBIN LIPPINCOTT, AUTHOR OF BLUE TERRITORY: A MEDITATION ON THE LIFE AND ART OF JOAN MITCHELL

“You literally can’t put this book down.”

LEE SMITH, AUTHOR OF DIMESTORE: A WRITERS LIFE

“What makes the narrative exceptional is its nuanced approach to Mallie’s spiritual transformation.”

KIRKUS REVIEWS
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Valeria Vose won the 2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards Gold Medal in Southern Regional Fiction.