Leila Christine 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, Khôra, Black Warrior Review, North American Review, ASAP, and Aster(ix), and has been supported by awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, Tin House, the de Groot Foundation, and Aspen Words. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University and is founding director of the Environmental Humanities Program at an upstate New York university. More info: www.leila.xyz. Instagram: @afghan_vegan.