Publications

Published July 1, 2024, by Beltway Editions
Selected for DCTRENDING’s Summer Booklist 2024
“An intimate, often hilarious, always relatable debut. . . . It’s raw, honest, sex-positive, and brave. . . . A beautifully written and accessible collection of poetry.” —Norah Vawter, DCTRENDING magazine
“These verses vividly illustrate the familiar figure of a person tragically in love. . . . A brazen account of love and sex.” —Kirkus Reviews
Upon suffering a computer overuse injury and seeking treatment, Liza Achilles fell in love with her physical therapist. As her arms healed, she began writing Shakespearean sonnets addressed to him. Between November 2016 and November 2017, she continued writing poems to chronicle the true story of her ever-changing love life, often putting a humorous spin on her daily struggles of the heart. Two Novembers is a sonnet sequence that carries the beauty and drama of an ancient poetic style into the twenty-first century. View advance praise for Two Novembers.
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Sneak Peek
Selected sonnets from Two Novembers are published online and free to read at these links:

Published Poetry
My poems have been published in literary journals.
- Exacting Clam: Sonnets 12, 21, 31, 38, 43, and 54 (Autumn 2023)
- Burrow: Sonnets 41, 45, and 51 (September 2022)
- The Big Windows Review: Sonnets 121 and 124 (August 30, 2022)
- Brief Wilderness: Sonnets 35, 39, and 42 (August 16, 2022)
- Tofu Ink Arts Press, Volume 4: Sonnets 122, 123, and 127 (June 6, 2022)
- The Headlight Review: Sonnet 114 (January 27, 2022)
- Beltway Poetry Quarterly: Sonnets 129 and 130 (April 15, 2020)

Published Nonfiction
My nonfiction articles have appeared in various publications.
- Silent Book Club Blog: Silent Book Club by the Month (August 30, 2022)
- The Three Hares Blog: 3 Lessons I Learned From Writing a Historical Novel (September 24, 2021)
- Silent Book Club Blog: My Silent Book Club Began to Lead Itself (April 2, 2021)
- bookgaga: How to Read Books in a Pandemic in the Digital Age (February 24, 2021)
- Off the Beaten Shelf: 11 Great Books Set in Cold Weather (January 18, 2021)
- Silent Book Club Blog: The Pandemic and My Local Library (November 23, 2020)
- Silent Book Club Blog: Epidemics, Plagues, and Isolation (March 26, 2020)
- Washington Independent Review of Books: Silent Book Club: Events for (Noisy!) Book Lovers (July 15, 2019) This was the fourth most popular article in July, as stated in this article).
- Silent Book Club Blog: How to Organize and Host a Book Club (July 15, 2019)
- Silent Book Club Blog: Where Have You Been All My Life? (May 12, 2019)
- Silent Book Club Blog: The Timelessness of Books (March 28, 2019)
- Silent Book Club Blog: How Many Books Do You Need? (February 17, 2019)
- Silent Book Club Blog: New Year’s Book Solutions (January 5, 2019)

Award
Woo-hoo—my fiction won an award!
- Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society: William Faulkner–Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel-in-Progress (2016) I was recognized as a Semi-Finalist for my novel The Water-Creatures.

Work in Progress
I am working on a new manuscript.
- Novel with undisclosed title: A work of literary autofiction. The theme is the intersection between philosophy and psychology. Started as a memoir. Begun anew as a novel. Presently being worked on. Pitch and comps available upon request.

Government Publications
Always good to have a day job.
United States Department of Agriculture
I work as Policy Technical Writer as a contractor to USDA. Here are selected publications that I assisted with.
- USDA Chief Information Officers Council (October 2024)
- Enterprise Zero Trust Architecture (September 2024)
- Encryption Security and Public Key Infrastructure (August 2024)
- Information Technology Security Baselines and Security Control Tailoring (November 2023)
- Information Security Awareness (ISA) Program (October 2023)
- Geospatial Metadata Standards (August 2023)
- Information Collection Procedures (August 2023)
- Cloud Computing (May 2023)
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) (May 2023)
- Enterprise Geospatial Data Management (March 2023)
- Video Teleconferencing Facilities and Systems (January 2023)
- End User Workstation Configurations (October 2022)
National Forum on Education Statistics
I assisted the National Forum on Education Statistics as writer, editor, and graphic designer. Here are some of the publications I worked on.
- Forum Guide to Exit Codes (September 2020) I am a named consultant in this publication.
- Forum Guide to Planning for, Collecting, and Managing Data About Students Displaced by a Crisis (September 2019)
- Forum Guide to Personalized Learning Data (August 2019)
- Forum Guide to Early Warning Systems (November 2018)
- Forum Guide to Facility Information Management (May 2018)
- Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Attendance Data (January 2018)
- Forum Guide to Data Visualization: A Resource for Education Agencies (October 2016)
- Forum Guide to Collecting and Using Disaggregated Data on Racial/Ethnic Subgroups (September 2016)

Works in the Proverbial Drawer
The following works are unfinished and on hold.
- Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the Songbird Cycle: Literary/historical novels. This series of four books begins with The Water-Creatures.