He is the Chief Learning Officer and Head of Strategy with a private sector company in Trinidad and Tobago. His books Ethelbert and the Free Cheese won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2016. His first book A Plethora of Dead ends – A Collection of Short Stories from Trinidad and Tobago, was published in July 2021 by Notion Press of Chennai, India. He has also had stories published in the Trinidad Guardian newspaper in 2007, and online in Granta (2016), Adda (2016) and Twist and Twain (2018). His award-winning story from 2016 was handpicked as part of The ImagiNation Project, a collection of 18 imaginative short stories from ten countries and six continents.
An MBA, a trained secondary school teacher, a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management Studies, Lance Dowrich is also a Quality Auditor and an External Evaluator with the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago.