Leila Christine Nadir

Leila Christine Nadir is an Afghan-American artist, writer, and educator. She is the author of award-winning essays and artworks about public health, the Afghan diaspora, environmental theory, and her personal experiences of religion, ethnicity, trauma, and healing. Her primary project right now is her childhood memoir, titled Bad Muslim, which chronicles growing up within the colorful, turbulent marriage of her Afghan, Muslim father and Slovak-American, Catholic mother, who together raised seven children. Excerpts have appeared in Aster(ix), North American Review, Asian American Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Quarterly. She earned her PhD in literature from Columbia University, and is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Rochester, where she is also Founding Director of the Environmental Humanities Program. More info about her work can be found at http://leilanadir.xyz/.