Leah Naomi Green

Green’s courses include Eco-Writing, “Wilderness, Wildness, & Cultivation,” and topics for first-year writing seminars. She has researched creative writing (poetry), environmental literature, Buddhist practice, and food justice.

Leah Naomi Green

Leah Naomi Green

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Environmental Studies

Curriculum VitaeWebsite

Education

  • M.F. A. in English (Poetry Writing), University of California, Irvine
  • B.A., Environmental Studies in the Humanities, Earlham College 

Research

  • Ecopoetry
  • Environmental literature
  • Creative non-fiction

Teaching

  • English 263: Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene
  • English/environmental studies 207: EcoWriting (multigenre creative writing)
  • English/environmental studies 214: Environmental Poetry Workshop
  • Environmental Studies 110: Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • Writing 100: The Nature of Nature: Environmental Thought and Literature
  • Orion Magazine Poetry Workshop, Online, March-April 2023

Selected Publications

Books

  • The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020), winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

  • The Ones We Have (Chapbook), (Flying Trout Press, 2012)

Other

  • The Age of Affection” Orion, Summer 2022

  • “Jacob Have I Loved”, “One”, “Object Permanence”, “Somewhere She’s Learned”, “The Transitive Property of Song” Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), Spring 2022

  • "The Transitive Property of Song,” “The Age of Affection,” “Jacob Have I Loved,” “The More Extravagant Feast,” and “Origin Story” anthologized in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia (Texas A&M University Press), November 2022

  • “Mourning Songs are Love Songs” Anthologized in Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, UVA Press, forthcoming 2023

  • “Somewhere, She’s Learned” feature, Poetry Daily July 31, 2022

  • “Origin Story,” Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, 2021

  • “Return, Investment, Return,” The Paris Review, 2020

  • “Naming” environmental writing exercise published in the “discussion guide” for Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist (Simon and Schuster, 2020)

  • “Helping” American Poets, 2019

  • “The More Extravagant Feast,” Tin House, 2018

  • “Field Guide to the Chaparral,” The Southern Review, 2017

  • “Narration: Transubstantiation,” Pleiades, 2017

  • “To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window,” Pleiades, 2017

  • “Venison” and “Once Home” Ecotone, 2014

Honors and Awards

  • Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, Judged by Li-Young Lee, 2019
  • The Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2020
  • Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, 2021
  • Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow 2021
  • Sherwood Anderson Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry, Guilford College, 2021-2022
  • UVA, Honors College Visiting Resident Fellow, 2022
  • The Moth Nature Writing Prize, Highest Commendation, Judged by Max Porter, 2022
  • Academy of American Poets’ Treehouse Climate Action Prize, second place award, 2021
  • Silver Nautilus Book Award in Poetry, 2020

Selected Interviews and Press