Charlotte Rice has been a contributor to The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and Seventeen, among other magazines. This does not mean that the aforementioned have actually published anything she's written, but she's been contributing stuff for twelve years. She is the author of My Heroes Have Always Been Dead, Creeping Aphrodite and The Sweet Grime of Summer. Her newest unpublished novel, Eye Contact, is a lesbian romance.

"I wanted to write books that illustrated the romantic side of lesbian/women relationships, instead of being convenient fodder for erotica. Erotica has its place, but I think anyone would agree that women also want to read books that reflect meaningful experiences in their own lives. Not just a 'bodice-ripper' book. Toni Morrison once said that if there's a book out there that you want to read and you can't find it, then it's your duty to WRITE it...and I agree."

A former concert pianist, Rice has been a freelance journalist/columnist for fifteen years and has been the recipient of numerous writing awards and fellowships. She was a literary agent for seven years and owner of The Oven Agency. Rice is from Shreveport, Louisiana, where she grew up in a house that had running water and no alligators in the backyard. She has since married and lives in the "nosebleed section" of Dallas.