Leah Naomi Green is writer-in-residence at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press), selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and named “one of the best books of 2020” by The Boston Globe. Her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, the Treehouse Climate Action Poetry Prize and others. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, The Nation, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, VQR, The Southern Review, Orion, The Georgia Review, and Ecotone, among other journals. Green teaches English and environmental studies at Washington and Lee University as well as online creative writing workshops for Orion Magazine. She lives in an ecological community in the mountains of Virginia, where she and her family homestead and grow food.