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LD Green

Journey to the Enchanted Inkwell

2025 Unpublished Contest - Runner-up (Comic & Graphic Novel)

Leo-Demi (LD) Green (they/them) is a queer, trans masculine and non-binary poet, essayist, writer, screenwriter, and graphic novelist. They are also a community college professor living in Richmond, California on Ohlone Land. They have been published on Salon, The Body is Not an Apology, Foglifter, and elsewhere. 

They have featured at dozens of reading series, slams, showcases, and workshops in schools, colleges, and open mics locally and across the country. They co-edited We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health with Kelechi Ubozoh, published by North Atlantic Books and distributed by Penguin Random House in 2019. They authored Phoenix Song, published by Black Lawrence Press, 2022. They received a BA from Vassar College and have an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. LD was a Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow, and was selected for Tin House and Stowe Story Labs. LD’s queer and trans rom-com fantasy screenplay Journey to the Enchanted Inkwellwas a finalist in several national contests. They adapted this project into a YA graphic novel that they are developing with the artist Jamie Kiemle. This book is currently on submission to publishers now.

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