Alicia Caudle, the curator of the Altered Bits Mixed Media Art Zine is a self-taught mixed media artist who has been creating unique and interesting art for the great majority of her life. As a very young child, she was graciously blessed with an Etch-a-Sketch (tm) from her parents which fueled her creativity at an eerily early age. From there, she quickly graduated to paper, glue and various doll parts to create strange little collages and assemblages that her mother typically scoffed at. She "did not buy Barbies to have them be immediately dissected", for example.

Residing in Portland, Oregon, Alicia has a small but happy creative family: musician husby Paul and eight-year-old son, Finn. Both (thankfully!) share her penchant for anatomical illustrations, bird nests, vintage photography, miscellaneous doll parts and "creepy things".