Bio

Elliott D. Woods is an independent writer and photographer from the United States. He currently lives in Pennsylania.
Elliott studied Arabic and covered arts and culture in Cairo in 2008, then covered the winter 2008-2009 Israeli offensive in Gaza with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Elliott’s reporting from Gaza for the Virginia Quarterly Review earned a citation from the Overseas Press Club in 2010.
Elliott is a frequent contributor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, GlobalPost, the Daily News Egypt and the Washington Times.

