Woods was born and raised in a rural farm town, Sandoval Illinois, and lived from 2000 to 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was a resident of the anarchist collective C.A.M.P.
She moved in 2003 to New York City, where she resided and worked for A Gathering of the Tribes, art gallery-salon and small press, owned and operated by novelist and professor Steve Cannon.
Her work has received praise from The New York Times,[2] Publishers Weekly, The Seattle Review of Books and many other media outlets.
[citation needed] Woods received the Shirley Jackson Award in 2018, for a story in her collection, Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country.
[4] Woods was awarded the Cobalt Fiction Prize in 2013 for her short work of poetic prose entitled "Things to do when you're Goth in the Country".