Alice Goodman, Lady Hill (born 1958[1]) is an American poet and librettist.
She was educated at Harvard University and Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied English and American literature.
She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams (Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer) and the text of a cantata by Tarik O'Regan (A Letter of Rights).
[5] Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic, but withdrew from this project after a year.
[6][7] In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge,[8] and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire including Fulbourn.