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Gordon Grice (born 1965,
Guymon, Oklahoma Guymon ( ) is a city and county seat of Texas County, in the panhandle of Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 12,965, an increase of 13.3% from 11,442 in 2010, and represents more than half of the population o ...
) is an American science writer and horror writer.


Life

Grice grew up in rural Oklahoma, a setting that has figured in much of his writing. He graduated from
Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
with a BA in English and the
University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and the largest university in the state. Founded as Arkansas ...
with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He is married and has three children. He has taught creative writing for California Institute of the Arts and the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. His book The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators (1998) was listed among the Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember for 1998. Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals was published in 2010. Wall Street journal listed it among the "Five Best: Nature Books." Revised editions, retitled The Book of Deadly Animals appeared in 2011 (UK) and 2012 (US). Critic Mark Dery described his work thus: "Fascinated by the alien ways of the nonhuman world, Grice combines the sardonic deadpan of noir fiction with the best naturalists' unsentimental scrutiny of animal behavior and a rural midwesterner's applied knowledge of the predator-prey relationship. A Jean-Henri Fabre for literati who drive pickups with rifle racks." Grice’s other works include Shark Attacks: Inside the Mind of the Ocean’s Most Terrifying Predator (eBook; National Geographic, 2012) and the children’s book Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World (Workman Publishing, 2015). He has also published poetry, fiction, essays, and articles. His nonfiction has appeared in '' Harper's,'' ''
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'', and others. His horror stories have appeared in ChiZine, Aurealis, and other magazines and anthologies.


Awards

*"Hide" Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 200

Ellen Datlow, Ed.) *"The White Cat" (short story) chosen for Best of the 'Net 2006 * 1999 Whiting Awards, Whiting Award *Finalist for the PEN Center West Book Awards in research nonfiction for 1999


Works

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Anthologies

* * * *Kelly A Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist, eds. (2019) Not Far from Roswell. Pole to Pole Publishing. *Lisa Vasquez, ed. (2017) Unleashed: Monsters vs. Zombies Vol. II. Stitched Smile Publications. . *Anna Reith, ed. (2017) Restless: An Anthology. Frith Books. .


References


External links


Official WebsiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation


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