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Ocean Point, Maine: Circa 1970
| 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. He has center-justifed this page because Sitebuilder is otherwise incapable of rendering it correctly. He is looking forward to abandoning the software and Yahoo Small Business web services as soon as possible. |
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