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Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press), which was selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets. Her work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Treehouse Climate Action Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, the Guilford College Sherwood Anderson Visiting Writer Program, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award for compassion, courage, truth-telling, and commitment to justice. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Paris Review, Tin House, Poem-a-Day, the Kenyon Review, VQR, the Southern Review, Orion, Ecotone, and Pleiades among other journals.
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. Her chapbook, The Ones We Have, received the 2012 Flying Trout Chapbook prize.
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 Rockbridge County, Virginia, where she and her family homestead and grow food.
