Thomas J RiceAuthor's Bio: Thomas Rice was born in rural Ireland and lived there until he was 16. Along the way, he's been a farmer, breeder of border collies, construction worker, tractor driver, bartender, licensed carpenter, tenured professor, founder of an intitute for social justice, and story-teller. Rice has been a Professor of Sociology at Denison University, Georgetown University, a Research Associate at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an NEH Fellow at Berkeley. He's been a Visiting Professor and Extern Examiner at The National University of Ireland-1979-86. He is the co-author of four textbooks and over 50 articles and essays in a wide array of refereed academic journals and editorial pages of newspapers such as: The Boston Globe, In These Times, and The Chicago Tribune. He writes a regular blog for his website, barrowriverpress.org. Since 2012, his writing has been edited by Professor Wayne Johnson, best-selling author and Iowa Writers' Workshop Faculty. Beginning in 2009, he committed to creative writing full-time. Since then he has published 6 short stories, two novellas, a short story collection, and a memoir. His first novella, Hard Truths, was selected by Otto Penzler and Robert Crais for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories of 2012. In 2010, he published a memoir about growing up in post-WWII Ireland, called, Far from the Land: An Irish Memoir. He has recently (2015) published a third novella, Carby's Fate, and in 2016, a collection of novellas and short stories (10 stories; 250 pages), titled, Rites of Passage: Five Irish Stories. Read More Read Less