Denny S. Bryce

Denny S. Bryce creates historical fiction that foregrounds Black women during social change, family conflict, and artistic ambition. In the Face of the Sun moves between 1928 and 1968, linking a road journey from Chicago to Los Angeles with buried memories from an earlier generation. Bryce has described the novel as a story shaped by the Great Migration and by women claiming the right to direct their own lives. Her wider bibliography includes Wild Women and the Blues, In the Face of the Sun, The Other Princess, and Can't We Be Friends, written with Eliza Knight. Before publishing novels, she worked in marketing and public relations and wrote about books and popular culture. She later became an adjunct professor at Drexel University and a book critic whose work has appeared in NPR and national magazines. That combination of research, journalism, and narrative craft informs her treatment of music, movement, race, class, and gender across twentieth-century America.