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 three decades among the poor, homeless, and incarcerated, inspiring him to co-author Up Close and Personal: Embracing the Poor.

Anthony’s writing has won a number of awards, including a Will Rogers Copper Medallion Award for his short story published in Saddlebag Dispatches, 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 two anthologies, Winning Writer’s Waltz and Tales of the Western Trail.

The Fire that Calms the Storm, the fifth novel in Anthony’s historical fiction series was released December, 2023. The series, A Tale of Two Colors, is the saga about 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.