Leila Christine Nadir

Leila Christine Nadir is a 2026 New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellow, 2026 Kenyon College Peter Taylor Fellow, and MacDowell Fellow. Her creative work appears in scholarly and literary journals, in museums and galleries, and in forests, classrooms, and kitchens, and she is at work on a memoir about the global geopolitics that invade our private living rooms and the intimate violences that reverberate across the planet. Her art has been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum, and her essays have been published or are forthcoming in The Nation, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salon, The Markaz Review, Black Warrior Review, North American Review, Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and was founding director of one of the first Environmental Humanities programs in the nation before joining the editorial team at Los Angeles Review of Books. (updated 10/2026)