Woods, Eddie, 1940-

Originally a reporter, Eddie Woods moved into the expatriate, essentially surrealist school of post-World War II writers in the late 1960s. He first made contact with it through his journalistic work in Thailand, which was then followed by his becoming an editor for the INTERNATIONAL TIMES, a London-based weekly that was one of the counter-culture's major voices in the 1960s and 1970s. Woods had begun writing poetry and fiction by this time and after he moved to Amsterdam in the 1970s he founded INS & OUTS magazine, then subsequently the Ins and Outs Press and Bookstore, all of which flourished as publishers, publicists, and organizers of expatriate cultural production through the 1970s and into the 1980s.