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Eve Wood is a Los Angeles-based artist and art critic. Her writing and poetry has been widely published in magazines and literary journals such as The New Republic, Best American Poetry,The Denver Quarterly, North American Review, The Atlantic Monthly,The Massachusetts Review, The Santa Monica Review, Poetry, The Seattle Review, and many others. Collected by and collaborating with notable people in Hollywood and the arts, Eve Wood is an artist's artist. She holds a BFA and MFA (1992, 1994) from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from UC Irvine (1996) in creative writing. She is the recipient of a Jacob Javits Fellowship and a California Community Foundation Fellowship. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as Susanne Vielmetter, Western Project, Ochi Projects, and Track 16 Gallery, which currently represents her. She is the author and/or illustrator of seven collections of poetry and chapbooks.

Praise for SIX"This book of historical persona poems, spoken by the six wives of Henry VIII, could only have been written by a poet of prodigious imaginative powers, skill, and an enormous curiosity. That poet is Eve Wood and SIX is a wonderful book." —Thomas Lux"Eve Wood's haunted and haunting ventriloquisms of sixteenth-century women remind me of John Berryman's hallucinatory Mistress Bradstreet. Like Berryman, Wood shows us what might be made of history if poets had their way. —Michael Collier"Wood's use of returning and startling imagery pulls us into the haunting and heartless atmosphere into which each [of Henry VIII's wives] was thrown by marriage. [...] Equally remarkable ar the poet's divinings into these women's relationships with God and nature." —Kate Knapp Johnson"Gorgeous and chilling." —Gail Willumsen"These poems are a benediction — nuanced, so perfectly crafted in their loveliness [...] smart, savvy, tender and in many places, elegant and wise. Buy this book, and live more richly!"—John Fairfield RicePraise for past works"Remarks on Color is a luminous tapestry of prose poetry that invites readers to embark on a chromatic odyssey. Wood’s stunning synthesis of familiar reality and surreal exaggeration illuminates the complex relationships, emotions and cultural associations we share with these spectral entities. As the amused reader considers the significance of each color in their own personal spectrum, Wood serves up a feast and critique of the colorful world in which we live. —Tyler Stallings"Employing the fictive voice of a former president, Eve Wood shifts the perspective on the happenings of our times — where all indicators point to the slow, inexorable collapse of the American Experiment – to the one man who represents the very heart of our onetime democracy and the towering soul of this once-revered nation: Abraham Lincoln. A Cadence for Redemption is a work of narrative brilliance, the arc and architecture of which is seemingly upheld by the merest of lyrical tentpoles — that, in all their brevity, of the poems themselves. Yet the ideas across the collection, and the emotive carry in each one of these songs of love, songs of longing and loss, are as equally affecting as they are disquieting; they are as well, in their grand sum, entirely profound." —Christopher von Hassett, Riot Material“Quickened by passion and imagination, the body of poems that makes up Love’s Funeral is astoundingly alive.”—Mark StrandPraise for Eve Wood"As a lay reader, I found [Wood's] poetry rich, challenging and instinct with energy." —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark

• ForewordDiane Arbus Goes ShoppingSIXThe Two V'sA Cadence for Redemption: Conversations with Abraham Lincoln