Karenne Wood

Karenne Wood (born 1960, died 21 July 2019 ) was a member of the Monacan Indian tribe who was known for her poetry and for her work in tribal history. She served as the director of the Virginia Indian Programs at Virginia Humanities, in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. She directed a tribal history project for the Monacan Nation, conducted research at the National Museum of the American Indian, and served on the National Congress of American Indians' Repatriation Commission. In 2015, she was named one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History". and is an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation. for six years. She has served on the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission and on the Monacan Tribal Council. As part of the preparations, Wood edited The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail and curated the exhibition Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present, at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. (later Virginia Indian Programs) at Virginia Humanities, a state humanities council in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Wood was a published poet

Selected works

"Urban Nightmare," American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1998), p 493 The Monacan Indians: Our Story (1999) Weaving the boundary: [poems] (March 2016) University of Arizona Press, Sun Tracks series.

Wood, Karenne (2007)The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, 2nd ed. Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

In Anthology Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) University of Georgia Press.