Red Hen Press/Boreal Books
Coming in June 2024

A collection of essays that make up a paean to the material world—food, clothing, cars and houses, of course, but also to wastrel beauty that serves no purpose but to catch at the human heart. Another North captures the feeling of being buffeted by great gusts of middle-aged longing. What begins as the author’s quarrel with Buddhism, especially its doctrine of non-attachment, morphs into a larger question: What’s the right way to love a person or a thing? With voluptuous detail and rigorous self-interrogation, Jennifer Brice looks for answers in family lore, personal experience, conversations with friends, and beloved books. The result is a tender, moving, far-reaching—sometimes delightfully funny, sometimes achingly poignant—exploration of the powerful ties that bind us to one another and to the world around us.     

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Read the title essay from Another North as it appears in Issue 49 of The Adroit Journal:

https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-nine/jennifer-brice/ 

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"In the 12 fresh, candid, and often emotionally resonant pieces that compose Another North...Jennifer Brice reveals how the almost limitless flexibility of the essay makes it such an appealing vehicle for a writer of her skill," writes Shelf Awareness. 

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"Brice previously chronicled her Alaska youth in “Unlearning to Fly.” In “Another North,” she returns to Fairbanks as a divorced woman longing for a sense of home. The new collection takes readers from her life as a professor in New York‘s Leatherstocking Country to her days piloting small planes in the Alaska bush. Brice is a beautiful prose stylist, and her book navigates the turbulence of middle age with a steady — and elegant — hand." 

writes The Los Angeles Times Review

University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books
ISBN: 0-8032-3428-4

A memoir-in-essays of a bookworm who grew up in Alaska, among people whose recklessness, resilience, and boundless energy find an outlet in winter ascents of mountains and first descents of wild rivers. Unlearning to Fly is the account of a fearful pilot who admires but cannot emulate the daring exploits of her heroes. Why is it, she wonders, that the moments when our lives hang in the balance are also the moments when we feel most alive?

Photographs by Charles Mason
Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction
Duquesne University Press
ISBN: 0-8207-0290-0

How do people find congruence between what they believe is important and how they choose to lead their lives? That’s the question behind this riveting, unsentimental portrait of two families who were among the very last to “prove up on,” or earn the title to, their land under the terms of the now-defunct federal Homesite Act.  In the early 1990s, Jennifer Brice and Charles Mason began documenting the lives of settlers in the Alaska wilderness. They didn’t realize they were also witnessing the end of an era—the closing of the American frontier. Critics call the prose “memorable and lovely,” the photographs “reminiscent of the Farm Security Administration.”