Bruce Woods is a professional writer/editor with more than 30 years in magazine publishing, having worked as editor of Mother Earth News and Alaska Magazine, among others, and has published both nonfiction and poetry books. Prairie Schooner magazine featured his work in its “Writing from Alaska” issue. His Birdhouse Book, brought out by Sterling/Lark, is still in print and has sold more than 100,000 copies.  

In addition to the Birdhouse Book referenced above, Woods has published three nonfiction volumes and several books of poetry with small presses. During his magazine editing career he also served as editor/contributor to numerous nonfiction volumes. Several of his essays have been anthologized, as well.

Woods currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska with his wife Mary and his two cats, Lucy Fur and Boswell. He has two children, Ethan who studied music composition at Bennington College and his daughter Alice who is a student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

His first novel, Royal Blood, the initial book in the "Hearts of Darknes" trilogy, is scheduled to be published by Knox Robinson in 2015,
  • Anchorage, Alaska
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