Publications
Literary publications are listed below. View nonliterary 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.
Two Novembers is available at all bookstores. If it’s not on the shelf, you can order it. You may find Two Novembers on the shelf at the following fabulous locations:
- Barnes & Noble in Alexandria, Virginia, and Gaithersburg, Maryland
- Politics & Prose in Washington, DC
- Kramers in Washington, DC
- The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland
- Schuler Books in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Open Books in Seattle, Washington
Two Novembers is also available from my publisher, Beltway Editions.
Sneak Peek
Several sonnets from Two Novembers are published in online literary journals and free to read at these links. Note that some of these sonnets may be in a slightly different form in these literary journals than in the book.
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Poetry
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
Work in Progress
A literary/autobiographical novel: I’m writing a novel on the intersection between philosophy and psychology—and a secret I kept for over 30 years. I hope to complete this project by mid-2026.
Novel(s) in the Proverbial Drawer
One or four literary/historical/autobiographical novels: One day, I’d like to return to my first-attempted novel(s). Originally envisioned as a single literary/historical novel, it split into four books as its length grew. If and when I return to this project, I will add autofictional elements and decide whether it is one novel or a series of four novels. The first section/book is called The Water-Creatures. The entire work is tentatively called The Songbird Cycle. The work compares and contrasts two different cultures and religions in a specific historical time and geographical place.
Award
Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society | William Faulkner–Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel-in-Progress | Semi-Finalist | The Water-Creatures | 2016
Fiction
Exacting Clam | Shortish Sentences My Boyfriend and I Texted Each Other | Winter 2025 (Forthcoming)
Nonfiction
Silent Book Club | 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 | 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 | The Pandemic and My Local Library | November 23, 2020
Silent Book Club | 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 | How to Organize and Host a Book Club | July 15, 2019
Silent Book Club | Where Have You Been All My Life? | May 12, 2019
Silent Book Club | The Timelessness of Books | March 28, 2019
Silent Book Club | How Many Books Do You Need? | February 17, 2019
Silent Book Club | New Year’s Book Solutions | January 5, 2019
