Liz Wood

Sep 14, 2024 | wyomingnews.com | D’Ron Campbell |Liz Wood |Joshua Wood

SARATOGA — With a resonant voice and a beaming smile on his face, to say Loren “Teense” Willford had a presence in the valley and beyond would be an understatement. “You can’t fully understand Teense unless you were one of his friends and, of course, everybody was his friend (in) one way or the other,” former governor Jim Geringer said. “If you didn’t get along with Teense, it wouldn’t take long before you did.”Teense passed away early on the morning of Sept. 3 following a long battle with cancer.

Aug 28, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Liz Wood |Ruth Kemp

It’s a thrilling thing, still, to read a book that is so full of female voices that it would fail the Bechdel test if the genders were reversed. While men inevitably appear in Claudia Piñeiro’s Time of the Flies, published by Charco Press and translated by Frances Riddle, their presence is always ancillary, in relationship to the women who drive its plot and describe its world. But this isn’t a utopic portrayal of female friendship.

Aug 12, 2024 | therumpus.net | Liz Wood

Seeing yourself reflected in a writer’s incisive, witty, and weird ideas feels nothing short of miraculous, especially if you have ever felt excluded from mainstream definitions of what a writer or thinker should be. If you’re anything like me, these discoveries happen almost exclusively thanks to independent presses, zines passed hand to hand, or blogs tirelessly updated by invisible, benevolent editors who seem like guardian angels.

Feb 1, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Liz Wood |Chiara Marchelli |Tobias Carroll

“Transformative” is an overused word. Few things change us in the moment and are unerasable in their impact. Giving birth, however, is transformative—regardless of whether or not we wish it to be. The transformation is literal: a child’s cells often remain in our bodies for the remainder of our lifetimes. We are no longer singular—we become carriers of our child’s genetic code. Whether or not we care for them, whether or not they survive, once they are born, a child is etched into our bodies.

Dec 15, 2023 | roamingwithred.com | Liz Wood

People from all over the world flock to the European Christmas markets. You hear many different languages spoken while you’re walking around with stars in your eyes, wondering how you waited so long to go. When I decided to sign up for the group tour headed to Europe for the Christmas markets, I wondered what I was going to pack. Where I live is very tropical, so I don’t have a bunch of cold-weather clothes (aside from my coat obsession).