Leila C. Nadir

Leila C. Nadir is an award-winning writer, social practice artist, creative-critical educator, and literary editor. Her work appears in scholarly and literary journals, in museums and galleries, and in forests, classrooms, and kitchens, and has earned awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Art Omi, Bread Loaf, de Groot Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Maine Arts Commission. She founded one of the first Environmental Humanities academic programs in the nation and ran it for ten years before joining Los Angeles Review of Books as their environmental section editor. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and is represented by Ayesha Pande of Ayesha Pande Literary in NYC.