Enid Baxter Ryce is an award-winning author, artist, and professor. Her new and upcoming books include Ancient Spells and Incantations: Echoes of Magic Through Cultures and Across the Ages (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2026), Plant Magic at Home: A Complete Guide to Harnessing the Power of Nature From Rituals to DIYs (Running Press, 2025), The Borderlands Tarot/el Tarot del Tierras Fronterizas (Running Press, 2024), and Grace Flows Through You (Amber Lotus, 2026) From the Ground Up (edited by Irene Tsatsos, Armory Press, 2024. She recently co-edited and co-authored a Library of Congress Research Guide titled "Borders, Nature, and the West” (2022) and a Field Guide to Fort Ord (multiple printings).
Enid has exhibited internationally at museums and festivals, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Arnolfini, the Getty, Glimmerglass, and the Harvard Film Archive. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, People en Español, The Los Angeles Times, on CBS Radio News, NPR, and numerous other publications. She was co-PI on a five-year, $1.25 million National Institutes of Health grant and a researcher on a Getty Foundation PST Project in collaboration with the Huntington Botanical Gardens. Enid is a former guest curator for the MexiCali Biennial and the Philip Glass Center for Art, Science, and the Environment, where she created her film War and the Weather, featuring the music of Philip Glass.
Enid has completed several fellowship programs, including at the National Academy of Sciences, the Getty Foundation, the Western Growers and Shippers, and Yale University. Most recently, she was named a fellow of the Sephardic Stories Initiative at the Harold Grispoon Foundation. She has an MFA in Visual Arts, having studied at The Cooper Union and Claremont Graduate University. Enid is Professor of Cinematic Arts, focusing on Scientific Storytelling at CSU Monterey Bay.
She no longer performs as a musician.
Full CV (22 pages) upon request.
