Waubgeshig Isaac Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario.

[2] Waubgeshig Rice began his journalism career when he spent a year in Germany on a student exchange program, and wrote a series of articles about his experience for the First Nations newspaper Anishinabek News.

[3] He graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University (formally known as Ryerson University) in 2002, and began working as a freelance journalist for media outlets such as The Weather Network and Wasauksing's community radio station CHRZ-FM[4] before joining the CBC's local news bureau in Winnipeg in 2006 and transferring to Ottawa in 2010.

The New York Times named Rice, alongside Cherie Dimaline, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger and Stephen Graham Jones, as "some of the Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror and fantasy.

"[10] In 2021 Rice launched the Storykeepers podcast with author Jennifer David, with assistance from an Ontario Arts Council grant.