• 1991 Whiting Writers' Award

• "BOYS who DO the BOP: 9 New Yorker Stories", Anderbo.com
• "Australia", Slush Pile

• Fresh Grease: New Writing from the Maritimes (Publisher) Straw Books, 1971
• Gushy & Gooey and other stuff from the kids of Nova Skotia (Editor) Anderbo Books, 1971 & 1973
• Such a neat idea, Nova Scotia people, poems and stories (Editor) Anderbo Books, 1973

These surgically precise slices of intelligent life are distinguished by virtuosic phrase-making and fetchingly off-beat specifics.

Mr. Rofihe can be surprisingly effective, with a quirky tenderness. Oddly touching, the interest here lies not in the stories’ mundane incidents, but in things barely hinted at: beneath this calm surface, powerful currents flow.

Rick Rofihe’s stories have bulging motor nerves and threadlike muscles. They are contour almost without mass; lines of fierce magnetic energy with only a dusting of iron fillings to reveal their course. They are elusive, but not in the sense of escaping us. It is more as if we are unable to find them, and then they spring out at us; we are not sure from where.

The narratives weave toward minor epiphanies, backing and filling, curving around their characters with a seeming lack of coherence...yet they are strangely compelling, as the refusal to make plain their meanings gives more depth to implication.