Unveiling Secrets Across Borders: A North Korean Daughter’s Heartbreaking Journey in "The Boat Not Taken"
The United States is and has long been—since the arrival of the first missionaries and conquering Europeans—a nation of immigrants; preserving, honoring, never forgetting the stories of these American lives, is vital to understanding and appreciating who we are as a nation and to embracing our fundamental diversity.
Meet the Contributor
Dorothy Rowena Rice is a writer, free-lance editor, Managing Editor of the nonfiction and arts journal Under the Gum Tree and a Board Member with the Sacramento area youth literacy nonprofit, 916 Ink. Her published books are The Reluctant Artist (Shanti Arts, 2015) and Gray Is the New Black (Otis Books, 2019). She is the editor of the anthology TWENTY TWENTY: 43 stories from a year like no other (2021, A Stories on Stage Sacramento Anthology). At age sixty, after retiring from a thirty-five-year career in environmental protection and raising five children, Dorothy earned an MFA in Creative Writing, from UC Riverside, Palm Desert. Learn more and find links to many of her published stories, essays, reviews and interviews at www.dorothyriceauthor.com
