Dorothy Rice is the author of two memoirs published by small presses, the Small Press Distribution best-seller 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 and flash fiction and nonfiction have been widely published in literary journals and magazines, including The Rumpus, Hippocampus, the Brevity Blog, the Saturday Evening Post, Sacramento Magazine and Under the Gum Tree. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, recognized several times by the regrettably defunct Glimmer Train Magazine, and long-listed for the 2018 Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her essay In Photographs was awarded second place in the 2018 Kalinithi Awards. Her essay Fathers and Daughters was one of two essays selected for Honorable Mention status in Tiferet Journal's 2021 nonfiction contest and her essay She's Still In There: won Second Place in Under the Sun's 2021 Creative Nonfiction contest. She is currently working on a novel in flash, a Middle Grade novel and a sequel to her memoir GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK.
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 certified Amherst Writers and Authors method creative writing workshop facilitator and provides developmental editing and other author support servies on a case-by-case basis. For three years (ending with the 2022 season) Rice co-managed the award-winning Sacramento Stories on Stage program with co-director and author Shelley Blanton-Stroud. She is proud to be a new Board Member with the Sacramento area youth literacy nonprofit 916 Ink where she worked for several years as a creative writing workshop facilitator.
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 and flash fiction and nonfiction have been widely published in literary journals and magazines, including The Rumpus, Hippocampus, the Brevity Blog, the Saturday Evening Post, Sacramento Magazine and Under the Gum Tree. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, recognized several times by the regrettably defunct Glimmer Train Magazine, and long-listed for the 2018 Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her essay In Photographs was awarded second place in the 2018 Kalinithi Awards. Her essay Fathers and Daughters was one of two essays selected for Honorable Mention status in Tiferet Journal's 2021 nonfiction contest and her essay She's Still In There: won Second Place in Under the Sun's 2021 Creative Nonfiction contest. She is currently working on a novel in flash, a Middle Grade novel and a sequel to her memoir GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK.
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 certified Amherst Writers and Authors method creative writing workshop facilitator and provides developmental editing and other author support servies on a case-by-case basis. For three years (ending with the 2022 season) Rice co-managed the award-winning Sacramento Stories on Stage program with co-director and author Shelley Blanton-Stroud. She is proud to be a new Board Member with the Sacramento area youth literacy nonprofit 916 Ink where she worked for several years as a creative writing workshop facilitator.
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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