Bio:
Lee Woodman is the author of the “Scapes” poetry series (Heartscapes, Colorscapes, Soulscapes, Artscapes, Lifescapes, Homescapes, Mindscapes,) and winner of the Independent Press Gold Award 2025, the Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry 2025, and the Independent Press Award for Distinguished Favorite in Poetry 2023. She is also winner of the 2020 William Meredith Prize for Poetry, the 2021 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition Merit Award, and First Prize in Poetry and Prose Contest for Carve Magazine 2022.

Her essays and poems have been published in Free State Review, Poet Lore, Tiferet Journal, Zócalo Public Square, Grey Sparrow Press, The Ekphrastic Review, vox poetica, The New Guard Review, The Concord Monitor, The Hill Rag, Naugatuck River Review, Tulip Tree Publishing, and The Broadkill Review. A Pushcart nominee, she received an Individual Poetry Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities FY 2019 and FY 2020, and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship in 2022. Woodman has been a featured guest on numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Grace Cavalieri’s “Poet and the Poem” at the Library of Congress, “The Packaged Tourist Show” at The National Archives with Andrew Dibiase, “The Authors Show” with Don McCauley, and “Gab Talks” with Gabby Olczak.

Woodman is a longtime artist and media producer, whose radio and film awards include five CINEs, two NY International Film Blue Ribbons, and three Gracies from American Women in Radio and Television. She worked for 20 years in leadership roles at the Smithsonian, was Vice-President of Media and Editorial at K12, Inc., and President at Lee Woodman Media, Inc., with clients including The Library of Congress, The World Bank, Public Radio International, NPR, and the Fulbright Program.

An early childhood in France and India through age fourteen sparked her love for language, art, theater and dance. She now lives in Rhinebeck, NY.