Leila Nadir

Leila Nadir, PhD, is an award-winning writer and social practice artist. Her essays and criticism have been published in Salon, Leonardo, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Asian American Literary Review, and Black Warrior Review, among other places, and she has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, Tin House, Art Omi, de Groot Foundation, and Periplus Collective. She founded one of the first environmental humanities academic programs in the United States before joining Los Angeles Review of Books as environmental editor.