About AMR

Andrew Monroe Rice is a writer, podcaster, a retreat leader, mentor and a ‘recovering politician’. 

 A former State Senator,  Andrew also ran against the infamous Oklahoma senator, James Inhofe, in 2008.  Andrew was honored by the ACLU of Oklahoma for his service to the residents of the state. 

Andrew co-founded a news site called NonDoc. He holds degrees from Colby College, and Harvard Divinity School, and serves on the board of directors for the OKC-based non-profit 1024 Cake, Inc.

Andrew is the host of the conversation series podcast, Stories From Nowhere and  leads centering prayer and addiction recovery retreats.  He has developed a program that supports the emotional recovery of men incarcerated in Oklahoma. He visits prisoners regularly. 

AMR's novel, GHOSTS OF URSINO, is available here.  It was published through Burnt Hill Publishing.  He has also published four collections of poetry, Luminosity, Jung, At The Unraveling, becoming.poems and Years at Home. They are available here.

AMR's poetry has appeared in the Scapegoat Journal, Wild Roof Journal, and Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts