[1] She has taught at a number of universities and helped to found the Indiana Writers' Center.
She married Elmer Friman in 1955, followed his job to Dayton, Ohio, in 1956, and in 1960 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana.
She started writing poetry seriously in her forties and is one of the founders of the Indiana Writers' Center.
Friman used to host a poetry podcast titled Ask Alice,[3] which was sponsored by the Georgia College MFA program and some episodes can be seen on YouTube.
Essays by Friman include “Truth: The Road or the Rug” [essay on Carson McCullers] (published in The Georgia Review, 2012); “Letting Go” (published in The Movable Nest, Helicon Nine, Kansas City, MO, 2007); “The Office” (published in Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, 2004); “Inking In the Myth” (published in Hopewell Review, 1996–97, and expanded in anthology Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival, University of Georgia Press, 1999).