About
Betsy Woods, Author
Betsy Woods is an author, editor, and teacher.
Her novel, Strong Moon Tonight, is forthcoming in 2023 from TouchPoint Press. Her work has appeared in The Louisville Review, The New Orleans Review, The Trunk, Alive Now, Literally Stories, The Times-Picayune, ACRES USA, Sophisticated Woman, Citizen’s Together, The Burningword Literary Journal, the Children's Literature Association, and others.
Woods is the editor of Cornerstone of The Louisville Review, past writer and researcher for The Louis Armstrong House Museum, and writer-in-residence at The Waldorf School of New Orleans. She has an MFA in writing from Spalding University. New Orleans is her home, she grew up on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain and on the edge of Doubloon Bayou where she listened to alligators bark. She shares a rooted heritage with the wetlands. They intermingle in her, like lily pad roots.