Stella Brice

Stella Brice was born in Houston, Texas. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Rice University (where she studied with Max Apple). Stella has been an equestrienne, a dancer, a tarot reader, a performance artist & a housecleaner to faded rock stars in San Francisco (her clients included the drummer & the lead singer of Strawberry Alarm Clock) Her writing has appeared in numerous journals including Frank, Fine Madness, Southern Poetry Review & many others. Online, her work can be found at Right Hand Pointing, Radiant Turnstile, FRiGG, Clean Sheets, Heavy Bear & Word Riot. Her poems have been anthologized in Keeping Death, Women .Period., & The Weight of Addition: An Anthology of Texas Poetry. She is a Pushcart nominee; a winner of the John Z. Bennet Prize; & is the author of two chapbooks—the latest a collection of dark fairy tale poems called Outgrow. Stella lives with her husband David in a 103 year old house with a big tangled garden in the Old Sixth Ward, Houston.