Daniel Woody

About Daniel Woody

Daniel Woody is a poet, educator, and doctoral researcher based in the English subject at Örebro University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught creative writing, composition, and literature at universities in the United States, China, and now Sweden. His poetry has been published in literary journals such as the Chicago Review, Pleiades: Literature in Context, and RHINO: A Poetry Journal, and it has been exhibited in installations and performances at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Poetry Center, and the Sullivan Galleries. His doctoral research project focuses on (eco)spatiality in Black American speculative fiction, drama, and poetry, with a particular focus on the representational and theoretical significance of forest settings within these works.