Bryce M. O’Tierney is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Anchorage, Alaska. Her work as musician, writer, and dancer explores inheritance and desire, as exchanges between: the nonverbal and verbal, human and greater-than-human, improvised and composed. Additional lines of inquiry include: womanhood and mental health.

Courses taught include: College Composition (CO150), Reading Without Borders (E142), Intro to Poetry (E240), Intro to Creative Writing (E210); Junior (392) &  Senior/Capstone (492) Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Seminars; Music Appreciation (MU100). Bryce is a current participant in the CSU climate initiative, Climate Across the Curriculum, and, beginning in Fall 2025, an inaugural faculty member (English and Music) for the CSU Spur Start Program.

Embodiment, collaboration, play, and focused listening guide Bryce's approach in the classroom. If not in Eddy, she can be found in UCA, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, or on the CSU Spur Campus in Denver.

Bryce’s poem publications include: Poetry Ireland Review, About Place Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Common Ground Review, RHINO Poetry, , and Anchorage Daily News. She is the Poetry Scholarship awardee for the 2025 Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference; prior poet-participant at the 2024 Napa Valley Writers Conference, and the 2022 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop.

Bryce is a classically trained violinist who composes, records, and performs in touring duo maeve & quinn (maeveandquinn.com) with her twin, Maris (commissions with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre, Poetry Foundation, Chicago Composers Orchestra, Anchorage Symphony). Described as “anything but ordinary” by the Chicago Tribune, maeve & quinn's latest album release is Another Door.

Bryce holds an MFA in Poetry from Colorado State U.; prior degrees with honors from Northwestern University (student of Frank Almond) and Trinity College, Dublin. She plays a 1985 Guarneri model by Chicago luthier Augustino Napoli.