Born in Drogheda in 1966,[1] he studied biology and chemistry and worked for periods as an industrial chemist, teacher and school principal.
He lived and worked in Kyoto, Japan in the early 1990s and travelled for long periods in Asia, in particular China and India and later in Latin America.
[citation needed] Based in part on his experiences of living in Burma, Dedalus Press published his work, Monsoon Diary, in 2018.
[citation needed] With Gerard Smyth he co-edited The Poetry Project, a web anthology of visual artists and filmmakers interpreting selected poems.
[citation needed] In Zimbabwe, Woods edited and was a contributing writer for The Mashonaland Irish Association, A Miscellany, 1891-2019; Weaver Press, Harare, 2019.