Lyo-Demi Green 638 36th Street Richmond, CA 94805 l.d.green.teal@gmail.com
EDUCATION Mills College, MFA English and Creative Writing May 2007 Vassar College, BA American Culture, Cum Laude May 2002
PUBLICATION/PRODUCTION HISTORY
Publications: Books
Phoenix Song, Nomadic Press, February 2022
We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model North Atlantic Books, 2019 (co-editor and contributor with Kelechi Ubozoh)
Publications: Journals, Magazines, and Anthologies
"A Thing with Feathers" We'll Never Have Paris, 2020 "Not Confused, Not Crazy: On Being a Non-Binary Radical Mental Health Advocate" PULP, 2020 “We’ve Been Too Patient: Mutual Aid Practices for the 21st Century” The Body is Not an Apology (TBINAA.com) 2017 “Psychiatric Survivor: The Trauma of Involuntary Hospitalization” 2016 “7 Lessons Losing My Cat Taught Me About Life and Love” TBINAA 2016 “10 Lessons I Learned While Healing from Relationship Addiction” TBINAA 2016 “Coming Back Around to Bi” TBINAA; also published in Foglifter 2016 “A Letter to My Dildo” Sparkle and Blink 2016 “5 Lessons I’ve Learned About Mental Health Care in Spite of Psychiatry” TBINAA 2016 “Why Friends Make the Best Medicine: Radical Self Love for the Neuroatypical” TBINAA 2016 “No, Really, Give Yourself an Orgasm: Radical Self Love and Masturbation” TBINAA 2016 (some of the above articles were published under the penname “Imogen Prism”) “The Awkward Threesome: Geek, Nerd, and Dork” truth-out.org March 2013 “The Queen of Spades” Sinister Wisdom July 2011 Regular, featured blogger of eleven articles on geekgirlonthestreet.com, 2009-2010 Including: “Avatar: Same Feces, Different Species,” “Watchmen’s Big Blue Balls,” “Neil Gaiman’s Coraline,” “Exactly Why Twilight Blows (Parts 1-3)” “Interview with James Marsters, Excitable Geek” 3 poems The Walrus 2007 “She Did Not Apologize” High Desert Voices 2005
Productions/Readings Selected Performances and Events: See "Appearances" for events in 2019 and 2020
Reader, Lyrics and Dirges May 2018 Panelist and Reader, The Body is Not an Apology book launch February 2018 Bay Area Generations featured reader March 2017 Liminal Writer in Residence Showcase September 2016 Liminal BEASTCrawl Reading July 2016 Radar/Quiet Lightning Collaborative Reading February 2016 The Crow Show November 2015 Anne Sexton Tribute Reading November 2015 BEASTCrawl (East Bay Literature Fest) July 2015 Nomadic Press: New York Writing May 2015 Liminal Center Feminist Writing Showcase February 2015 Featured Reader, Litquake's Litcrawl event (Lambda showcase) October 2014 Featured Reader, Litquake, North Atlantic Books October 2012 Ensemble Theater, writer/performer 2007-2008 Co-Poetry Slam Champion of San Francisco, and SF Team Member 2004
Objective Overruled: The Life and Words of Mumia Abu-Jamal given staged reading with Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco 2004 “Airtight Security” performed through PCSF as part of San Francisco Fringe Festival 2003
Runner-up for the Princess Fellowship in Playwriting 2002
Featured poet at: Mental Graffiti in Chicago, Boise Poetry Slam, Berkeley High School, San Ramon High School, Los Angeles Community College, Las Positas Community College, Alameda Middle School, Watershed Poetry Festival, Pride Stage 2005, The Ill List Modesto Invitational 2004, Berkeley Poetry Slam (three times)
CONFERENCES, RESIDENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS
Featured Reader, Women Who Submit Lit, AWP February 2019 Locus Workshop with Annalee Newitz October 2019 Reader, FogCon March 2018 Locus Workshop with Charlie Jane Anders July 2017 Fiction Workshop with Nick Mamatas, San Francisco Creative Writing Institute Spring 2016 Presenter, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference April 2015 Attended Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference February 2014 Catwalk Artists’ Residency August 2013 Tin House Writer’s Workshop, Fiction July 2012 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writers’ Retreat, Fiction August 2010 Co-Presenter on “Slam and the Academy,” Individual World Poetry Slam Oct 2009 Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Membership Outreach Director 2003-2004
TEACHINGEXPERIENCE Tenured Professor of English Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA Aug 2016-present Visiting Professor of English San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Aug 2013-May 2016 Adjunct Professor of English, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA April 2011-June 2016 Adjunct Professor of English, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA Aug 2007-Dec 2013 Adjunct Professor of English, Merritt College, Oakland, CA Aug 2008-May 2012