Elizabeth Woody

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Poet Laureate of Oregon, 2016–2018

Elizabeth Woody is the author of Luminaries of the Humble (University of Arizona Press, 1994), and Seven Hands, Seven Hearts (Eighth Mountain Press, 1994), winner of the American Book Award. In 2016, Woody was named the eighth poet laureate of the state of Oregon. She is the executive director of the Museum at Warm Springs. She lives in Warm Springs, Oregon.