David Leo Rice

David Leo Rice is an American novelist and short story writer known for his surreal and darkly comic fiction. Originally from Northampton, Massachusetts, Rice is based in New York City.

Rice is the author of the Room in Dodge City trilogy; novella The PornME Trinity; standalone novels Angel House, The New House, and The Berlin Wall; and short story collection Drifter: Stories and The Squimbop Condition. He also coedited nonfiction anthology Children of the New Flesh about the early work of filmmaker David Cronenberg. Rice also co-hosts the "Wake Island" podcast.

After graduating from Harvard, Rice received a DAAD fellowship to spend a year in Berlin, during which he began work on what would become his first novel. He subsequently relocated to New York, where he has been based while writing and publishing fiction across a range of small and independent presses. His novels The New House and The Berlin Wall were published by Whiskey Tit. A central concern across his books is the tension between artistic ambition and corruption, particularly as embodied by figures of the art world and itinerant con men.