Alice Persons (born April 23, 1952) is an American poet. She was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, grew up on Army bases, and graduated from high school in Arlington, Virginia. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Oregon. She moved to Portland, Maine, in 1983 to attend law school and earned a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. In 2003, she co-founded Moon Pie Press, a small poetry press, with Nancy A. Henry, and since 2006 has continued the press alone. The press has published 40 books of poetry from poets all over the U.S.