Colin Woodard - Biography

Colin Woodard is a self-employed writer, 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).

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than forty
foreign countries and six continents, and lived for more than
four years in Eastern Europe. He is currently a foreign
correspondent of The Chronicle of Higher Education and
The Christian Science Monitor, and his work has
appeared in dozens of publications including The San
Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, The Miami Herald,
The Los Angeles Times, The Providence Journal,
Business Central Europe, Tompaine.com, Congressional
Quarterly, On Earth, Nature Conservancy, E: The
Environmental Magazine, Down East, 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. 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.

He currently lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, Sarah
Skillin Woodard, and their two dogs, neither of whom can
read.