She is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh, where she is studying poetry written by second-generation immigrant writers. Her own writing is an exploration of what it means to be the daughter of immigrants; it grapples with language loss, cultural identity, and displacement. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Arc Poetry Magazine, PRISM International, Third Coast Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, wildness and Vallum Contemporary Poetry. Her work was also selected for the 2018 edition of the Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology. Alycia is the Creative Writing and Reviews editor at HARTS & Minds, and she co-edits the multilingual publication, The Polyglot. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon in 2014 and is the recipient of two Calgary Artist Opportunity grants via Calgary Arts Development.