Elizabeth Woody (Navajo/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama) has published poetry, short fiction, essays, and is a visual artist.  Her first collection of poetry, Hand Into Stone received a 1990 American Book Award.  Her second and third collections of writing were published in 1994, Luminaries of the Humble, by the University of Arizona Press, and Seven Hands, Seven Hearts, Prose and Poetry by The Eighth Mountain Press.  She is born for Tódích'íinii (Bitter Water clan) and her birthplace is Ganado, Arizona. Woody presently works as K-12 Education Program Coordinator for Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction of OHSU located in Beaverton, OR. 

Ms. Woody also received the discretionary William Stafford Memorial Award for Poetry from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association in 1995, was a finalist in the poetry category for the Oregon Book Awards for 1994, and is an alumna of the first AIO/Kellogg Foundation’s Ambassadors program, and the J.T. Stewart Fellowship from Hedgebrook (given to women whose writing reflects commitment to transformational work).  Elizabeth Woody has taught writing workshops, and has lectured throughout the country.  From 1994-1996, Woody was a professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. 

Ms. Woody is presently on the Board of Directors of Soapstone, a Women Writer's Retreat, Willamette University Advisory Council for Native Programs located in Salem, Oregon and is secretary of the incorporating board of the newly endowed and formed Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. 

To see a complete listing of publications and exhibitions go to: www.nativewiki.org/Elizabeth_Woody