Alice Sinclair spent her formative years in country New South Wales where she developed a love of literature (including an appreciation of Shakespeare) and a talent for storytelling. Her husband died young and Sinclair raised their son alone. Sinclair worked in Sydney for a period and then returned to the Hunter Valley to care for her mother.
Sinclair's poetry was frequently anthologised in the publications of Poetry at the Pub (Newcastle) Inc. (PATB) (q.v.) and she regularly performed her work at readings in Newcastle, Canberra, Sydney, Armidale and Wollongong. Sinclair was an active member of writers' co-operatives in her region including the Macquarie branch of FAW, PATB and the Hunter Writers' Centre.
(Source: 'Vale: Alice Sinclair : 4 July 1929-1 March 2003' by Jan Dean. Five Bells vol.10 no.2 Autumn 2003, p.28-29)
