Frances Wood
.   Phone: 360.341.2326

Home: 5477 Wilkinson Road, Langley, WA 98260
Occupation: Nature Writer (also occasional teacher and illustrator)
Spouse: Bill Graves, attorney with Diesen, Wittman and Graves, Redmond.
Children: 2

Sons: Munro Galloway --(31) artist, represented by galleries in NYC, Milan, Italy, and Cologne, Germany. Presently living in London. Alex Galloway-- (28) Ph.D., Professor of media ecology with focus on digital art, New York University. Also digital artist and winner of 2002 ARS Electronica Golden Nica award for Net Vision.

"My nature writing usually focuses on bird ecology and bird watching. I write a monthly bird watching column for local newspapers, including the Mercer Island Reporter. Presently, I'm under contract with Fulcrum Press to write a book with the working title: Bird Watching through the Seasons."

"For the last four years my husband and I have worked with the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation teaching bird watching skills to local nature guides. We've taught month-long classes in Mexico (in the states of Chiapas and Quintanna Roo), Honduras and Guatemala. This has initiated much travel and bird watching throughout Mexico and Central America, also some research projects for local NGOs."

"For the last two springs I've coordinated a project for Audubon surveying and collecting data on all the breeding bird species in Island County. Also, I teach nature writing and illustrated journaling classes with Seattle Audubon."

"We live on Whidbey Island near Langley and enjoy walking the beach, working in our garden, and watching the every-changing views of Puget Sound and the Cascade Mountains."
     - Frances