Chris Wood is a writer and poet 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.
Born in Kentucky and now residing in Tennessee, she draws inspiration from Southern landscapes, etymology, and the often-overlooked stories embedded in ordinary lives.
Chris shares her writing in The Wood Journal where she offers personal reflection and reflects on people, places, and events that have shaped the past and marks significant moments in time.
An ardent word-lover, Chris is the creator of Word Vignettes where she delves into the etymology and evolving meaning of words that have shaped culture and conversation. Each entry will reveal the unexpected twists and turns in their histories. From commonly misunderstood terms to those that have transformed through centuries, each vignette uncovers the deeper story behind the words we use every day.
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. 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.” 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 on the Tennessee/Georgia border 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—a role she approaches with the same precision and curiosity that shapes her literary work.