Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014. ^[1] Prior to his staff writer position he was a contributing editor to The Atlantic, ^[2] and he has also written for The Cambodia Daily, ^[3] The New Yorker, ^[4] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. He served as books editor of Pacific Standard. ^[3] He was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations ^[5] and a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association. ^[6]

In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship, ^[7] for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State ^[8] and was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House. ^{[9] [10]}

Early life and education

Wood was born on August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota, to John Kenneth Wood and Louise Ann Kwan. ^[11] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997. ^[12] He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at Indiana University and Deep Springs College before transferring to Harvard College to study African-American Studies and Philosophy, graduating in 2001. ^[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• The New Republic author page
• The Atlantic author page

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