Leah Naomi Green

Leah Naomi Green’s The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020) was selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her work is supported by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, The Paris Review, Tin House, Poem-a-Day, VQR, The Southern Review, Orion, and others. Green teaches environmental studies and English at Washington & Lee University and offers poetry workshops through Orion magazine. She homesteads in an ecological community, where she and her family grow much of their food.