Enid Baxter Ryce is an award-winning author, artist, and professor.
Her forthcoming book, Cultivating Natural Intelligence (Rowman & Littlefield / Bloomsbury, 2027), is a guide for parents on raising children's minds through play and wonder in an age of screens and AI.
Her new and upcoming books include Grace Flows Through You (Amber Lotus, 2026) Ancient Spells and Incantations: Echoes of Magic Through Cultures and Across the Ages(Red Wheel/Weiser, 2026), Plant Magic at Home: A Complete Guide(Running Press, 2025), The Borderlands/el Tarot del Tierras Fronterizas (Running Press, 2024), and Field Guide to Fort Ord. She recently co-edited and co-authored a Library of Congress Research Guide titled "Borders, Nature, and the West” (2022) and contributed chapters to From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments, edited by Irene Tsatsos, Armory Press, 2024. In her serialized investigation Book of Trees, she recovers the buried histories hidden in family, archive, and land.
Her work has been exhibited and screened at the National Gallery of Art — where her film essay War and the Weather premiered, featuring the music of Philip Glass — as well as at the Library of Congress, the Getty, the Arnolfini, and the Harvard Film Archive. It has been featured in The New York Times, People en Español, The Los Angeles Times, on CBS Radio News, and on NPR, where she spoke on Marketplace about artificial intelligence and childhood. She was a 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 has held fellowships from the National Academy of Sciences, the Getty Foundation, and Yale University, and was a fellow of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation's Sephardic Stories Initiative. Two of her novel manuscripts — Beware the Azulay! (A Pirate's Tale) and The Spy and the Small Flames — were shortlisted for the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, and Beware the Azulay also received a Jewish Stories Award. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Cooper Union and Claremont Graduate University and is Professor of Cinematic Arts and Technology at CSU Monterey Bay.
She no longer performs as a musician.
Full CV (22 pages) upon request.
