About Summer Wood

photo by Miriam Berkley

photo by Miriam Berkley

Me: fiction writer (novels, stories); teacher; editor.

The seats: supported backsides for years in the venerable Kiva Theater in Albuquerque.

My places: Taos County, NM.  San Francisco Bay Area.  Humboldt County, CA. Andalucia, Spain.  A dash of coastal Maine.  And a feeling for Glacier Bay, Alaska, that could turn out to be either a thrilling infatuation or a serious crush.

Latest good news: my second novel, WRECKER, will be published in winter 2011 by Bloomsbury US and Bloomsbury UK.

Current projects: putting together the 2010 Young Writers’ Mentorship Program for SOMOS, here in Taos.  Moving forward with a collection of related stories (is this a novel?  Starting to look like one) set in the intermountain West.

First novel: ARROYO, published in 2001 by Chronicle Books.

Special thanks to: the glorious group at A Room of Her Own Foundation.  In late 2007 they awarded me the bi-annual Literary Gift of Freedom, a $50,000 grant intended to permit a woman writer to complete a particular work.  (Follow the link to learn more about this tremendous organization.)  With the time that grant bought, I completed WRECKER and got started on the next.

Where you’ll find me in 2010:

  • March 5-7: I’ll be part of AROHO’s contingent at the Women and Creativity Conference at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.  On Sunday the 7th, I’ll offer a full-day workshop titled “Finding Funding for your Creative Projects.”  You can register for this benefit workshop on the AROHO website.
  • April 7-10: I’ll be on two panels on at the Associated Writing Programs annual conference in Chicago.  Check back for more updated info.
  • July 12-18: Teaching “Writing the Where of it”, a weeklong workshop, at the UNM Taos Summer Writers Conference.
  • September-October 2010: Teaching an eight-week workshop on “Crafting the Inside Story”.  One series offered in Taos, a second in Santa Fe.  Email for more info.