Dorothy Rice is the author of two memoirs published by small presses, GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance (Otis Books, 2019), and THE RELUCTANT ARTIST (Shanti Arts, 2015), a hybrid art book/memoir. She also edited the anthology, TWENTY TWENTY: 43 Stories from a Year Like No Other (Stories on Stage Sacramento, 2021).
Her essays, stories, reviews and interviews have been published in literary journals and magazines, including The Rumpus, Hippocampus, the Brevity Blog, the Saturday Evening Post, Sacramento Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, and most recently, The Woven Tale Press. She is seeking a publisher for a new flash novel The Thick and Thin House (thus far, two flash fictions from the novel have been selected as finalists for the 2024 London Independent Story Prize and will be published in their next anthology).
She is currently working on a memoir in fragments, a sequel to her memoir GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK (working title: Learning to Live).
Dorothy is the Managing Editor at Under the Gum Tree, a reader supported, quarterly literary arts magazine, publishing creative nonfiction and visual art. She is also a Board Member with the Sacramento area youth literacy nonprofit 916 Ink and a certified Amherst Writers and Authors (AWA) affiliate. Check out her new Substack, Young Writers Salon.
At age 60, following a 30-year career managing solid waste, hazardous waste and water quality programs with the California EPA (her last position was Executive Director of the California State Water Resources Control Board), and raising five children, Rice earned an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside's low-residency program. A San Francisco native, Dorothy now lives in Sacramento.
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Her essays, stories, reviews and interviews have been published in literary journals and magazines, including The Rumpus, Hippocampus, the Brevity Blog, the Saturday Evening Post, Sacramento Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, and most recently, The Woven Tale Press. She is seeking a publisher for a new flash novel The Thick and Thin House (thus far, two flash fictions from the novel have been selected as finalists for the 2024 London Independent Story Prize and will be published in their next anthology).
She is currently working on a memoir in fragments, a sequel to her memoir GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK (working title: Learning to Live).
Dorothy is the Managing Editor at Under the Gum Tree, a reader supported, quarterly literary arts magazine, publishing creative nonfiction and visual art. She is also a Board Member with the Sacramento area youth literacy nonprofit 916 Ink and a certified Amherst Writers and Authors (AWA) affiliate. Check out her new Substack, Young Writers Salon.
At age 60, following a 30-year career managing solid waste, hazardous waste and water quality programs with the California EPA (her last position was Executive Director of the California State Water Resources Control Board), and raising five children, Rice earned an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside's low-residency program. A San Francisco native, Dorothy now lives in Sacramento.
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