L. D. GREEN is a queer and non-binary writer, performer, educator, and mental health advocate. They co-edited We've Been Too Patient with Kelechi Ubozoh in 2019, and authored Phoenix Song, published by Black Lawrence Press in 2022. Their work has been published on Salon, The Body is Not an Apology, Sinister Wisdom, Foglifter and elsewhere. A graduate of Vassar College, they earned their MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and have attended several artist retreats and residencies, including Lambda Literary and Gullkistan in Iceland. As professor of English at Los Medanos College in the San Francisco Bay Area, they teach composition, creative writing, and literature. They are collaborating with artist Jamie Kiemle on the Young Adult graphic novel Journey to the Enchanted Inkwell. At other times in their life they have been a poetry slam champion and a trumpet player for an activist brass band. For more info, visit: www.ldgreen.org.