Salaam Green

Salaam Green is from Greensboro, Alabama. She has a BA in English from the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama, and an MS in education from the University of North Dakota. 

Green is the author of The Other Revival: Poems and Reckonings (Pulley Press, 2025) and the chapbook Once Upon a Magic City. Her work has also appeared in Alabama Arts Journal and Southern Women’s Review. 

Green is the recipient of several awards, including a 2024 Literary Arts Award from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Sawyerville, Alabama.  She is an artist in residence in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Arts in Medicine program. The founder of the Literary Healing Arts Foundation, she is a poet in residence for the Wallace Center for Arts in Reconciliation. In 2024, she was named the inaugural poet laureate of Birmingham, Alabama, through 2026.