Alice Rose George (October 23, 1944 – December 22, 2020) was an American writer, poet, curator, and photography editor.

[2] She learned to play piano and graduated from Monticello High School in 1962,[3][4] and from H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans in 1966, with a degree in English.

Throughout her career in magazines (including Fortune and GEO),[5][6] she nurtured and promoted early-career photographers, including Mitch Epstein, Peter Hujar, Duane Michals, Gilles Peress, Alec Soth, Nan Goldin, Jim Goldberg,[7] Susan Meiselas, Lisa Kereszi, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Joel Sternfeld.

[9] George was also a poet whose work appeared in Bomb,[10] The Paris Review,[11] The New Republic, and The Atlantic, and in two collections, Ceiling of the World (1995)[12] and Two Eyes (2015).

[2][13] George was living in Los Angeles at the time of her death in December 2020, from a head injury after a fall.