BAYNARD WOODS

Baynard Woods is a writer, editor, reporter, and educator with 20 years of experience in various facets of the literary, journalistic, and artistic fields. He is the author of "Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness," and the co-author of "I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad.” He has also written a forthcoming book with a prominent political commentator on the continued fight against Jim Crow, complementing the unique voice of the author with a keen ear and literary sense of structure to develop his powerful ideas into an even more compelling narrative. 

Baynard is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and numerous other publications, including 25 alternative weeklies where he contributed a syndicated column on the first Trump administration. He has also worked widely as an editor, both in staff positions at publications and with individual authors on a freelance basis. He has a PhD in philosophy and has written libretti for operas that have been performed in New York, Portland, and Baltimore, where he has played in bands for 20 years. 

Baynard is open to collaboration with authors in the fields of literary nonfiction, reportage, and political or spiritual programs or philosophy. He is especially keen to work with activists, thought leaders, musicians, artists, and victims of an unjust system. Baynard strikes through his name in an attempt to bring the techniques of French deconstruction to the goals of American Reconstruction.