Liz Green is a writer, performer, and educator based in Oakland, California. As a performance poet, she has featured at slams, special showcases and workshops in middle schools, high schools, colleges and open mics across the country. She was on two national slam teams: San Francisco in 2004 and Berkeley in 2005. As a playwright and writer/performer, she has had her work produced at multiple local and national theater festivals. She received her BA from Vassar College and her MFA from Mills College in Creative Writing. She was a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She was accepted into the Tin House Writing Workshop in Fiction for 2011.

Liz is a long-time advocate of radical, critical pedagogy and was lucky enough to work with Augusto Boal on several occasions. She integrates his legacy and the work of Paulo Freire into her community college English curriculum.

She also plays trumpet with the Brass Liberation Orchestra.

Publications:

High Desert Voices
The Walrus
geekgirlonthestreet.com
Smart Tart
Sinister Wisdom
Resilience Anthology