Alicia spent over fifteen years in the restaurant industry before starting college. Over the summer of 2022, she finally finished her bachelor’s degree in Literature before beginning her masters in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at Monmouth University. In 2021, Alicia’s short story "Damned Anyway" was a finalist in The Hemingway Shorts Competition run by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Illinois. She has also had her writing published in TCNJ’s Lion’s Eye and the Showbear Family Circus.