About the Poet
Dr. Lisa Wood is a Professor of English, a course creator, and lecturer. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a BA in Communications/Film Production. Wood is the President of the Horror Writers Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction.
As L. Marie Wood, she is a Bram Stoker Award® winning psychological horror author. She is the recipient of the Golden Stake Award for Literature, a two-time Bookfest Award and an International Impact Book Award-winning author, a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, an Elgin and an Ignyte Award finalist, a Rhysling nominated poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Her papers are archived as part of University of Pittsburgh’s Horror Studies Collection.
Wood lived in Virginia for 11 years, writing the first of her poems to be published titled “Of Your Music”, which appeared in Rhapsody in Black: Creative Condensation for Literary and Visual Artists, as well as her debut novel, Crescendo. She has taught in Virginia for six years. Learn more about L. Marie Wood at www.lmariewood.com.
Region
Northern
Virginia City or County Affiliation
Fairfax County
Years of Residence in Virginia
11
Current City/State of Residence
Martinsburg, WV
Gender
Female
Race/Ethnicity
Black or African American
Year of Birth
1973
Keywords/Tags
dark, horror, feminine
Website
https://lmariewood.com/
Published Works or Performances
Chapbooks:
Imitation of Life (Falstaff Books, 2024)
Individual:
"Inside Out" (In Horrors Today, HWA, 2025)
"Vicious. Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream" (In Dragon’s Roost Publishing, 2025)
"An Accidental Poet" (In Blood and Spades, 2024)
"This House" (In Where the Silent Ones Watch Anthology, Hippocampus Press, 2024)
"Nightmare" (In Qualia Nous, vol. 2, Nettirw Backwards, 2023)
"I See" (In Under Her Eye, Black Spot Books, 2023)
"Watch" (In Shakespeare Unleashed, Monstrous Books, 2023)
"Under the Blue Moon" (In The Outlet, Bloom Where You Are Planted, Blue Ridge, Community and Technical College, Arts and Letters, Fourteenth Edition, pp. 48-49. 2023)
"What the Water Brings" (In Dangerous Waters; Deadly Women of the Sea, Brigids Gate Press, 2023)
"Beautiful" (In Under Her Skin, Black Spot Books, 2022)
"Do This" (In Castle of Our Skins, 2021)
"My Darkest Hour" (In Mirrors in Flame, 2003)
"Of Your Music" (In Rhapsody in Black: Creative Condensation for Literary and Visual Artists, Winter 1998, Volume 1, Issue 2, edited by John Riddick, Jr., pp. 18. 1998)
Selected Individual Poems or Performances
Black Dress, Four Crosses, Beautiful, Nightmare, To Hesitate
L. Marie Wood