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Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020), selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. She is the recipient of a 2021 Treehouse Climate Action Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets as well as the 2021 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award for compassion, courage, truth-telling, and commitment to justice.
She teaches environmental studies and English at Washington and Lee University specializing in Environmental Literature and Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Paris Review, Tin House, Poem-a-Day, VQR, The Southern Review, Orion, Shenandoah, Ecotone, and Pleiades among other publications.
The More Extravagant Feast was named “one of the best books of 2020” by The Boston Globe, a silver winner of the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards, and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Green has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and is currently the Sherwood Anderson Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry at Guilford College. Her chapbook, The Ones We Have, won the 2012 Flying Trout Chapbook prize.
She lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where she and her family homestead and grow or find much of their food for the year.
