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Ocean Point, Maine: Circa 1970
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). 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.
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.
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). 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.
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.
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 Portland, Maine with his wife, Sarah Skillin
Woodard, and family.
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 Portland, Maine with his wife, Sarah Skillin
Woodard, and family.
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