Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020), 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 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, the Treehouse Climate Action Poetry Prize, the Guilford College Sherwood Anderson Visiting Writer Program, and others. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Paris Review, Tin House, Poem-a-Day, the Kenyon Review, VQR, the Southern Review, Orion, Ecotone, and Pleiades 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.