Anthony Wood

Anthony Wood grew up in historic Natchez, Mississippi, fueling a life-long love of history. He lived and worked in Alaska for several years, but returned to the South to minister nearly three decades among the poor, homeless, and incarcerated, inspiring him to co-author Up Close and Personal: Embracing the Poor.

Anthony is a member of Turner’s Battery re-enactment living history group, the Civil War Round Table of Arkansas, and serves as President of White County Creative Writers. He is the Managing Editor for the award-winning western magazine, Saddlebag Dispatches.

Anthony’s writing has won a number of awards, including a Will Rogers Copper Medallion Award for his short story, Not So Long in the Tooth, in 2021. A number of his works have been published in Saddlebag Dispatches, The Vault of Terror, The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry, Writer’s Monthly, and several anthologies. Anthony was inducted into the Arkansas Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2024.

In The Name Tree, released in September, 2024, Anthony shares his journey through the thin veil to find his deceased daughter who took her own life to help save her, and himself in the process. Red Sky Storm, the seventh novel in Anthony’s historical fiction series was released December, 2024. The series, A Tale of Two Colors, is the saga of Lummy Tullos’s journey through the troublesome Civil War era in search of peace.

Anthony enjoys roaming and researching historical sites, camping and kayaking on the Mississippi River, and being with family. Anthony and his wife, Lisa, live in Conway, Arkansas. You can find Anthony at anthonywoodauthor.com, Facebook, or Instagram or contact him at awoodxulon@yahoo.com.