artist
Elizabeth Woody

tribe
Warm Springs

contact info
liz@ecotrust.org

bio
Elizabeth Woody is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon and works in Portland, Oregon as director of the Indigenous Leadership Program for Ecotrust. The Middle Columbia River tribes of the Wasco, Wish·xam, Watlala, Wayampum, Tenino, Tygh, and Walla Walla are her relatives through blood. Woody is also born for the Bitter Water clan of the Diné people. Elizabeth is an award-winning poet, and presently writes poetry, prose, and creative non-fiction. A graduate of Evergreen State College, she also double-majored at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in creative writing and two-dimensional design, and later taught there as a professor of creative writing.

Elizabeth's aunt Lillian Pitt has the artist's first pencil drawing of a saltine cracker in her private collection.