Chris Wood is a poet, writer, and creative thinker whose work explores the intersection of memory, history, and identity through a lens rooted in faith, language, and place. With a deep reverence for heritage and the evolving power of words, Chris weaves together personal experience, cultural observation, and historical nuance.

Her poetry appears in numerous journals and publications including American First Magazine, Salvation South, Dandelion Scribes, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, Lit Shark Magazine. Her work is also in several anthologies, including Women Speak (2025), Bayou, Blues, & Red Clay Poetry Anthology (2024), Nothing Divine Dies: The Poetry of Nature (2022), and Adult Children (2021).

Chris lives in Tennessee with her husband and a lively household of fur-babies, where she balances her writing life with a fulfilling career as a Director in Operations Services for a real estate investment trust. She specializes in tenant billing for shopping centers—a role she approaches with the same precision and curiosity that shapes her literary work. She is a member of the Tennessee Mountain Writers, Chattanooga Writers’ Guild, and Poetry Society of Tennessee.

She won second prize in the 2016 CWG Spring Contest for her poem, “Thus Your Life Grows,” and in June 2022, she won third prize in The Tennessee Magazine’s Poet’s Playground for her poem, “See Rock City.”