About Alycee J. Lane

Alycee Lane is an Oakland, California-based writer and blogger.

A graduate of Howard University, Alycee studied English literature and later obtained her Doctorate of Philosophy from UCLA, where she specialized in African American literature and culture of the civil rights and black power movements. From 1995 to 2003, she served as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which she obtained her Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall).

Alycee is author of the blog Coming in From the Cold, where she previously wrote under the pen name "SeventhSister." In her blog Alycee explores political issues through the prism of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence.

In addition to #nonviolencenow! and Coming in From the Cold, Alycee has written a number of scholarly and other articles on subjects ranging from the Black Panther Party to mitigation evidence in death penalty cases. In 1993, she was awarded the Audre Lorde Quill Award from the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum for the essays and interviews that she produced for BLK, a newsmagazine dedicated to the African American gay and lesbian community, as well as for her work as editor of Black Lace, the first ever African American lesbian erotic magazine.