Leila C. Nadir

Leila Christine Nadir is an Afghan-American artist and writer whose work appears in literary and scholarly journals, in museums and galleries, and in forests, classrooms, and kitchens. Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Khôra, Black Warrior Review, North American Review, Asian American Literary Review, ASAP, and Aster(ix), and has been supported by awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, Tin House, the de Groot Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Aspen Words, and Maine Arts Commission. She holds a PhD in English & Comparative Literature and is the Founding Director of one of the first Environmental Humanities academic programs in the nation. She is currently environmental section editor at Los Angeles Review of Books.