Stan Rice (Dallas, 1942 – New Orleans, 2002) was an American poet and painter, best known today as the husband of novelist Anne Rice. His poetry, shaped by loss and everyday life, belongs to the American poetry of his time, while his painting remained a quieter part of his work.
Rice met Anne at high school and they married in 1961. Soon after they moved to San Francisco, where both earned bachelor's and master's degrees at San Francisco State University, later returning there as a professor of English and Creative Writing. His first book, Some Lamb (1975), grew out of the leukemia death of their daughter Michele. In 1977 he received the Academy of American Poets' Edgar Allan Poe Award for Whiteboy.
In 1988 the family settled in the Garden District of New Orleans, where he opened the Stan Rice Gallery. His paintings are held by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Red to the Rind appeared in 2002, and False Prophet was published posthumously in 2003. He died of brain cancer and is buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.