A Nashville native, Wood is a veteran of newspapers, publishing, healthcare and healthcare technology. She has been an active freelancer, which led her to a four-year stint as the food blogger and restaurant reviewer for the Nashville Scene weekly newspaper while she attended radiology tech school. She worked as a mammographer and staff clinician at Lifesigns Health, a small clinic, then moved to Healthstream, where she was a content and metadata analyst and quality assurance analyst.
Wood’s earlier experience includes working in News and Public Affairs at Vanderbilt University, at Nashville Banner and Nashville Post newspapers, and cookbook publisher FRPBooks. She also taught writing in Cambridge, England, and in Nashville at Watkins College of Art and Design. Wood has ghost-written or guest-written several cookbooks and has one of her own titled Southern Cooking for Company (HarperCollins, 2015).
Wood attended Southern Methodist University and graduated from Sewanee, the University of the South, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in art history. She earned her master’s degree in English from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wood also graduated from the radiologic technology program at Nashville General Hospital and is qualified as a mammographer.
Wood started her new role at fuoco in late October.