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Colin Woodard is an award-winning journalist and author of
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a
Forgotten Frontier (Viking, 2004), Ocean's End: Travels
Through Endangered Seas (Basic Books, 2000), and The
Republic of Pirates (Harcourt, May 2007), which is the basis
of the forthcoming NBC series "
Crossbones." His fourth
book,
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival
Regional Cultures of North America, (Viking, Fall 2011), was
named one of the Best Books of 2011 by the editors of
The
New Republic
and The Globalist and received the 2012 Maine
Literary Award for non-fiction. He is currently State &
National Affairs Writer at the
Portland Press Herald and
Maine Sunday Telegram
, where his investigative reporting
won a
2012 George Polk Award.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than fifty
foreign countries and six continents, and lived for more than
four years in Eastern Europe. He is a longtime foreign
correspondent of
The Chronicle of Higher Education and The
Christian Science Monitor, a contributing editor at Down East
magazine, and State and National Affairs Writer at
The
Portland Press Herald /
Maine Sunday Telegram. His work
has appeared in dozens of publications including
The San
Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, The Washington Post,
Smithsonian,
Bloomberg, The Miami Herald, Arizona
Republic
,  Newsweek.com, Washington Monthly, San Jose
Mercury-News, Global Post
, The Daily Beast, RollingStone.
com
, The Providence Journal, Business Central Europe,
Tompaine.com, Congressional Quarterly, On Earth, Nature
Conservancy
, E: The Environmental Magazine, National
Fisherman, The American Prospect, Working Waterfront,
Military History Quarterly, The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

He has covered a wide-range of issues, from ethnic conflict in
the Balkans and peacekeeping in Guatemala to the
destruction of coral reefs and the effects of global warming on
Antarctica. Since 1989, Woodard has been based  in Budapest,
Hungary, Zagreb, Croatia, Washington, DC, and on the US-
Mexico border near Brownsville, Texas.

Woodard is a 2004 recipient of the
Jane Bagley Lehman
Award for Public Advocacy, given by the Tides Foundation for
his global reporting on environmental issues. He has also been
awarded numerous fellowships including a
Pew Fellowship in
International
Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies, a policy fellowship
at the
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
Europe
in Budapest, and journalism fellowships from the
German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Institute for
International Education, and the United States Antarctic
Program. Woodard was voted Best Author in 2009 and 2012
by the readers of the
Portland Phoenix and is a past director
of the writing program at the
Salt Institute for Documentary
Studies
, where he taught advanced narrative journalism,
editing, and fieldwork.  He is a graduate of Tufts University
and the University of Chicago, where he was awarded the 1997
Morton Kaplan prize for his thesis on the causes of ethnic
conflict in the Balkans.

Woodard is a member of the
Sea Space Symposium, and a
trustee of the
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

He lives in Midcoast Maine with his wife, Sarah Skillin
Woodard, and family.


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