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
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Environmental Studies
- Payne Hall 213
- P: 540-458-4821
- E: greenl@wlu.edu
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
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The Ones We Have (Chapbook), (Flying Trout Press, 2012)
Other
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The Age of Affection” Orion, Summer 2022
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“Jacob Have I Loved”, “One”, “Object Permanence”, “Somewhere She’s Learned”, “The Transitive Property of Song” Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), Spring 2022
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"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
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“Mourning Songs are Love Songs” Anthologized in Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World, UVA Press, forthcoming 2023
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“Somewhere, She’s Learned” feature, Poetry Daily July 31, 2022
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“Origin Story,” Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, 2021
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“Return, Investment, Return,” The Paris Review, 2020
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“Naming” environmental writing exercise published in the “discussion guide” for Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
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“Helping” American Poets, 2019
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“The More Extravagant Feast,” Tin House, 2018
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“Field Guide to the Chaparral,” The Southern Review, 2017
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“Narration: Transubstantiation,” Pleiades, 2017
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“To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window,” Pleiades, 2017
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“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
- National Public Radio: American Poet Leah Naomi Green Releases Her First Book
- The Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2020
- The Bitter Southerner: The Life & Work of Leah Naomi Green: A Taxonomy
- Nurturing the Compassionate Community: An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton
- Tricycle: Writing Interbeing: Poet Leah Naomi Green’s latest collection explores the interconnectedness of all things
- Puerto Del Sol: Feeling Deeply: A Conversation with Leah Naomi Green
- Ligeia Magazine: Leah Naomi Green Interview by Ashley Wagner
- Seattle Times: Leah Naomi Green wins Walt Whitman Award for debut poet