About AMR

Andrew Monroe Rice is a writer, a teacher 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 founded a news site called NonDoc. He holds degrees from Colby College, and Harvard Divinity School, and serves on the board of directors for Saint Francis of the Woods Retreat Center and the Institute for the Healing of Memories- North America. 

Andrew leads centering prayer and addiction recovery retreats and 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 three collections of poetry, Luminosity, Jung, At The Unraveling and becoming.poems. 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