Valencia Robin Grice, MFA
Lecturer, Creative Writing
- GriceVR@etsu.edu
- 423-439-6677
- 409 Burleson Hall
Valencia Robin Grice is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes poetry and painting. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, her debut poetry collection, Ridiculous Light, won Persea Books’ first book prize, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was named one of Library Journal’s best poetry books of 2019. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and have received the Emily Clark Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review. Similarly, her artwork has been shown nationally and supported by the King-Chavez-Parks Fellowship and the Margaret Towsley Fellowship at the University of Michigan where she also co-founded GalleryDAAS in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. She was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, spent much of her adult life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has deep roots in Georgia. Grice received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan. She writes and paints under the name: Valencia Robin: https://www.valenciarobin.com/