A very special LOGOS Gathering, co-sponsored by EcoTheo Review and Graywolf Press, in celebration of the publication of The More Extravagant Feast by Leah Naomi Green!
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Digital book-sales made possible by Bookwoman, Austin's premiere feminist bookstore.
Donations will be collected to support the work of Boxerwood Education Association, whose mission is "to educate and inspire people of all ages to be environmentally responsible stewards of the Earth."
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Leah Naomi Green is the author of The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press, 2020), which was selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her chapbook, The Ones We Have, received the 2012 Flying Trout Chapbook prize. Leah Naomi Green teaches English and Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University and lives in the Shenandoah Mountains where she, her partner, and their daughters homestead and grow food. Green received an MFA from The University of California, Irvine. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Paris Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, Ecotone, Pleiades and Shenandoah.
Allison Seay was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1980. She earned a BA in English at Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 2002 and an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2005. Her honors include publication in such journals as Crazyhorse, the Southern Review, Meridian, Arts and Academe, and Pleiades. Her first book manuscript is under consideration and was a semi-finalist for Tupelo Press's First/Second Book Award. She has enjoyed two retreats at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. She worked for several years at UNC Greensboro, as assistant director of the MFA Program and associate Editor of the Greensboro Review. She has taught at both UNC Greensboro, Greensboro College, and at Lynchburg College before moving back to Richmond, Virginia.