Gordon Grice

Grice grew up in rural Oklahoma, a setting that has figured in much of his writing.

[1] He has taught creative writing for California Institute of the Arts and the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

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.

"[3] 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).