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"Over the past few years, sitting in lectures and seminars at Columbia University, studying philosophy and physics, Alice Attie took 'notes'. Her Class Notes series of drawings are the result, drawings made in the real time of the seminar, in the moment of encounter with ideas and discussion. The drawings are full of movement. In some, she ‘draws’ text in shapes that crisscross and angle across the pages. In others, the fine lines of cursive ink glide freely and swiftly across the page, suggesting language. Sometimes a drawing deploys specific words and phrases, sometimes it gestures at text that we cannot quite read or decipher. These lines are often elongated, extended, dragged and dripping in various directions. What is so striking is the way in the present tense of the lecture – in the very moment of Attie's intellectual engagement – the lecture content is immediately transformed, or translated, into drawing, but drawing that suggests acts of inscription and gesture at verbal expression".

Photographs of the artist June Leaf, taken over eighteen years, accompany images of June's drawings in the book Attie completed with Steidl Press to accompany the 2016 Whitney Museum Exhibition: June Leaf: Thought is Infinite.

Attie originally entered the art world as a writer, studying literature and poetry throughout her career and obtaining bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in the field. After spending several decades as a distinguished photographer, Attie returned to poetry. Her first volume of poetry, These Figures Lining the Hills, was published by Seagull Books in November 2015. These Figures Lining the Hills was inspired by a simple request from Naveen Kishore of Seagull Books: a call to "write about notes, notes that we write to ourselves, in journals, in notebooks, perhaps notes that we imagine writing, fragments of notes, notes in margins, and notes, perhaps, that are not written". Having kept a journal for almost 50 years, Attie rose to the occasion by culling from her recent notebooks. Attie's poetry book Under the Aleppo Sun, 2018, with Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, is a collection of poems were inspired by her visit to Aleppo, Syria, the home of her grandparents, in March 2011, as the war in Syria was taking hold.

In 2012, Attie collaborated with philosopher Giorgio Agamben contributing photographs to his book The Church and the Kingdom.

In 2001, Attie published Alice Attie: Harlem on the Verge, (with introduction by historian Robin D. G. Kelley), a photography book of photo portraits and storefronts documenting modern-day Harlem on the verge of gentrification. In 2012, Alice collaborated with photographs in books by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Harlem and An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization.

Alice Attie (born in 1950) is a visual artist and published poet from New York City. After graduating from Barnard College in New York City with a degree in French literature, Attie obtained an MFA in poetry, studying under June Jordan at the City College of New York. Attie went on to complete a PhD from the Graduate School of the City University of New York in comparative literature, with a doctoral dissertation focused on "modern elegy, specifically on the meeting place of language and the unspeakable: how we accommodate what is inaccessible to language".

Inspired by nature, Attie's recent photographs feature the meadows, parks, and fields of Iceland, New Hampshire, upstate New York, and Central Park. Taken with her father's old 1937 Rolleiflex camera, her photographs explore the idea of nature as visual poetry.