About
Liza Achilles is the author of Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets, published by Beltway Editions on July 1, 2024. She has contributed poetry and nonfiction to Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Headlight Review, Tofu Ink Arts Press, Brief Wilderness, The Big Windows Review, Burrow, Exacting Clam, the Washington Independent Review of Books, and the Silent Book Club blog. Her blog for the discerning reader at lizaachilles.com features intellectually and artistically great books, as well as insights on living life well, always with sprinkles of humor. She lives in the Washington, DC, area.
Featured Work
Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ’n’ Sex in Sonnets
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.
