A native Texan, Tria Wood is a writer and English professor who also helps children become creative writers through the Writers in the Schools program in Houston, Texas.
Together with sculptor Tara Conley, she created a collaborative art installation, My Life as a Doll, which was exhibited at Diverseworks Artspace in Houston from November 11 through December 17, 2011. A lifelong fascination with museum tableaux and cabinets of curiosities inspires her engagement with installation art.
Wood earned her M.A. in English from Texas A&M University and her M.Ed. in Art Education from the University of Houston. She also served for several years as Visual Arts Editor for ArtsHouston magazine. Her poetry, fiction, art criticism and reviews appear in a variety of publications such as SPOT, Snowy Egret, Concho River Review, Arcadia, and A+C. Her recent writing explores the varied and complex ways we negotiate distance and desire, and comments on the way power structures shape personal life.
