Mica Merrill Rice is a biracial Haitian-American thriller author; crafting stories through the grey areas, seeing the world between Black and white. Her stories are emotionally charged and explore complicated women pushed to their breaking point. She believes a scorned woman is the most frightening creature to roam the earth.

Her writing began with notebooks of dark poetry, scribbled through years of teenage angst, depression, and the ache of wanting to belong. The darkness she wrote through back then still pulses through her work now. Older. Sharper. And far more dangerous...

A lifelong summer resident of the Hudson Valley’s haunted woods, Mica now pens her novels from a dimly lit, coffee-fueled cave in Florida, often with Philip Glass echoing in the background. She’s a wife, a boy-mom, dog-mom to Denver, and proud Nona to an outrageously spoiled grand-cat named Oliver. When she’s not writing, she’s reading obsessively, wandering new places, or behind the mic for her podcast.

And when she travels, she’s always taking notes because you never know where pain can become power on the page.