Gordon Grice

Grice grew up in rural Oklahoma, a setting that has figured in much of his writing. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BA in English and the University of Arkansas with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He is married and has three children.Grice, Gordon. DeadlyKingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals. Dial Press: 2010, p. 313. He has taught creative writing for California Institute of the Arts and the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.{{Cite web |url=http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=108 |title=UCLA Extension Writers' Program Instructors: Gordon Grice |access-date=2010-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702144156/http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=108 |archive-date=2010-07-02 |url-status=dead }}

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."{{cite web |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/mark_derys_reading_l.html |title=Mark Dery's reading list - Boing Boing |accessdate=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120721203321/http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/mark_derys_reading_l.html |archivedate=2012-07-21 }}

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,{{cite web |url=http://www.harpers.org/search.php?q=gordon+grice |title=Search Harper's Magazine |website=www.harpers.org |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803020241/http://www.harpers.org/search.php?q=gordon+grice |archive-date=3 August 2012 |url-status=dead}} The New Yorker,{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/search|title=Search|magazine=The New Yorker|publisher=|accessdate=26 March 2017}} Discover,{{cite web|url=http://discovermagazine.com/2001/sep/feattree/?searchterm=Grice |title=One Tough Tree |publisher=DiscoverMagazine.com |date= |accessdate=2017-03-26}} Popular Science,{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2002-09/crime-seen |title=Crime Seen | Popular Science |publisher=Popsci.com |date=2002-09-27 |accessdate=2017-03-26}} and others.{{cite web|author=Gordon Grice |url=http://deadlykingdom.blogspot.com/2008/08/articles-and-essays-by-gordon-grice.html |title=GordonGrice.com: Articles and Essays by Gordon Grice |publisher=Deadlykingdom.blogspot.com |date=2014-11-26 |accessdate=2017-03-26}} His horror stories have appeared in ChiZine, Aurealis, and other magazines and anthologies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21923|title = Summary Bibliography: Gordon Grice|website = isfdb.org}}

• "Hide" Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 [https://www.amazon.com/Years-Best-Fantasy-Horror-2006/dp/0312356145](Ellen Datlow, Ed.)
• "The White Cat" (short story) chosen for Best of the 'Net 2006{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundress.net/bestof/2006/griceg.htm|title = Sundress Five Star Hotels Publications}}
• 1999 Whiting Award
• Finalist for the PEN Center West Book Awards in research nonfiction for 1999

• {{cite book| title=The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators| publisher=Delacorte Press| year=1998| isbn=978-0-385-31887-7| url=https://archive.org/details/redhourglasslive00gric}}
• {{cite book| title=Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals| publisher=The Dial Press| date=May 18, 2010| isbn=978-0-385-33562-1| url=https://archive.org/details/deadlykingdomboo0000gric}}
• {{cite book| title=Shark Attacks: Inside the Mind of the Ocean's Most Terrifying Predator| publisher= National Geographic| year= 2012| asin= B0061BWNIE }}
• {{cite book| title=Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World| publisher= Workman Publishing| year= 2015| isbn= 978-0761169277}}

• {{cite book| title=Best American Essays 1996 |editor1=Geoffrey C. Ward |editor2=Robert Atwan| publisher=Houghton Mifflin| year= 1996| isbn=978-0-395-71757-8 }}
• {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=85PFTMUT5iQC&q=Gordon+Grice&pg=PA162| chapter=Caught in the Widow's Web| title=The Prentice Hall Reader| editor=George Miller| publisher=University Press of Mississippi| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-13-022563-4 }}
• {{cite book| title=The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002|editor1=Natalie Angier |editor2=Tim Folger| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co.| year=2002| isbn=978-0-618-08297-1| url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanscie00angi}}
• Kelly A Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist, eds. (2019) Not Far from Roswell. Pole to Pole Publishing. {{ISBN|1941559360}}
• Lisa Vasquez, ed. (2017) Unleashed: Monsters vs. Zombies Vol. II. Stitched Smile Publications. {{ASIN|B0764MDWL3}}.
• Anna Reith, ed. (2017) Restless: An Anthology. Frith Books. {{ISBN|1521888795}}.

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• [http://deadlykingdom.com/ Official Website]
• [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/gordon-grice#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
• [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0598/grice/interview.html "An Interview with Gordon Grice", Bold Type, Random House]
• [http://westcoastwriters.blogspot.com/2009/05/interview-with-gordon-grice.html "Gordon Grice", West Coast Writers]

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