Liza Wemakor is a queer Black fem. She writes speculative romance. Her writing has been published in Strange Horizons, Anathema Magazine, Rabid Oak Journal, Burning House Press, the Shenandoah Film Collaborative blog, and elsewhere. Her debut novella, Loving Safoa, will be published by Neon Hemlock Press in 2023. As of Fall 2021, she’s a Ph.D. student (studying Black feminist fictions). Her hometowns are Syracuse, NY and Atlanta, GA.
Blog Posts
- Worldbuilding in Sade’s Music Videos
- #BlackFaeDay and the Anti-Pastoral
- In This Dancery: Notes on the Magic of Nightlife
- Empire and Betrayal in ‘The Unbroken’
- The Spectacular, Black America and Palestine
- Daddy’s Dying: Notes on ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
- When In Autumn: Black Witch Sounds (An Album Playlist)
- Short Films In The Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism Collection
- Notes on Mermaids and Passing As Human
- Review: ‘Where the Rain Cannot Reach’ by Adesina Brown
- Love Letter #1
- Black Girls and Mirrors: A Review of ‘Starkeisha’ (2022)
- Review: ‘The Memory Librarian’ (2022)
- Love Letter #2
- Black Feminist Serenades (A Song Playlist)
- Nisi Shawl’s ‘Talk Like A Man’ (2020)
- Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Album (2022)