Writer

Social Media and Websites

Facebook post by India Wood with 97 comments and 9 shares

Create Facebook posts about my nature adventures which attract as many as 100 comments and multiple shares. Developed six websites using WordPress. Earlier in my career I managed development of an astronomy website, Sky & Telescope.

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Books

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My Help Is in the Mountain: The Selected Poems of Nancy Wood

Edited by India Wood

Published 2022. I selected the poems and wrote the biography for this posthumous collection of 73 poems by my mother, Nancy Wood. Nancy’s eight poetry books sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide. I hired a designer and editor and self-published the book on Amazon after approaching commercial publishers.

Double-Crossing the Rockies (unpublished)

This travel memoir sparkles with humor and curiosity as I backpack a 1,500-mile X across Colorado to see how nature is doing in the American West. I learn to stand on my own two feet despite a husband who tries to make me feel small, an untested body, and a terror of being alone. I map my own trails across the plains, 14,000-foot mountains, and deserts, my route taking this urban liberal through rural Republican America where the only consistency I find is kindness. Along the trail my feet trip over my own hiking ignorance, climb endless mountains, evade a bear who considers my tent a buffet, and reckon with bad humans who steal my water cache and threaten to put a bullet in my ass. In the end my regrown connections with humans, nature, and the divine enable me to stand on my own two feet as a single older woman.

India with pickaxe, 1979, age 12

The Dinosaur’s Daughter (unpublished)

This coming-of-age memoir is about an unparented teenager who digs up a dinosaur on a friend’s Colorado ranch. The fossilized bones are both a possible museum display and ticket to the profession of paleontology, but I wanted more than that.

Business Reports 2003-2016

NAMTA Artists and Art Materials market summary 2015

I produced 15 industry studies published by F&W Media, Interweave Press, and  trade associations. As the president of Hart Business Research (Hart) from 2003 through 2016 I conducted surveys and interviews, analyzed data, wrote reports, and subcontracted editors and graphic designers. I developed publication launch plans that included events, social media, web pages, e-newsletters, and print mail. Hart’s studies consisted of professionally-designed and edited market summaries, consumer and retailer survey reports, e-news articles, and web pages.

  • NAMTA Artists & Art Materials Study 2015, 2012, 2009; International Art Materials Trade Association (NAMTA)
  • The State of Specialty NeedleArts 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2005; The National NeedleArts Association (TNNA)
  • Sewing in America 2016, 2006; F+W Media
  • Scrubs Market Study 2014, Uniform Retailers Association
  • Interweave Creative Markets 2011, Interweave Press
  • Craft Artists, Income, and the U.S. Economy 2011, Craft Artist Development Association
  • The Stamp Collector Survey 2007, American Philatelic Society
  • The State of Beading in the USA 2004, Interweave Press
  • Two articles in Yarn Market News magazine
  • Seven articles and series of 25 market insights for NAMTA e-News, 2009–2013
  • Series of 25 market insights for TNNA e-News, 2016

Author Qualifications

  • Dartmouth College, English Literature B.A., 1988
  • Voices for the West Torrey House Publishing juried writing workshop, 2026
  • Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver, 2015–ongoing
    • Lit Fest seminars on travel writing, setting, scenes, emotional thesaurus, revision, 2023
    • Elements of a Strong Story, Rachel Weaver, 2021
    • Five Things You Find in a Scene, John Cotter, 2021
    • Nature Writing workshop with Helen MacDonald, 2019
    • Nonfiction Writing workshop with Joel Warner, 2018
    • The Big Edit with Eleanor Brown, 2016
    • Advanced Novel and Short Story workshop with Erika Krouse, 2015
    • Seminars on poetry, dialogue, scenes, story, plot, endings
  • Nancy Wood Literary Trust trustee 2013–2025: Managed licensing and foreign rights for my mother’s 28 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Produced Poem of the Month e-newsletter for nine years with a 41% open rate.
  • MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, 1996, with courses in business strategy, data models, and advanced business communications