L. D. Green (they/them) is a queer and nonbinary writer, performer, college educator, and mental health advocate living in Richmond, California. Their work has been published on Salon, The Body is Not an Apology, Truthout, and in Sinister Wisdom, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They have been featured at dozens of reading series, slams, showcases, and workshops in schools, colleges, and open mics locally and across the country. As a playwright and writer/performer, they have had their work performed at multiple local and national theater festivals including the National Queer Arts festival as well as the San Francisco Fringe Festival. L. D. received their BA from Vassar College and their MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, and they were a 2010 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. They attended Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and were a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. They are a professor of English and Creative Writing at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, California, and were an active member of the Bay Area chapter of The Icarus Project from 2009–2011. L. D. writes poetry, plays, screenplays, fiction, and nonfiction. Their chapbook of poetry and creative nonfiction is forthcoming from Nomadic Press.