Liza Wemakor is a writer and a Ph.D. student in UC Riverside's English Department. She writes and studies speculative fiction and Black American literature. Her short fiction is published and/or forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Anathema Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Prismatica Magazine, and elsewhere, and her debut novella (Loving Safoa) was published by Neon Hemlock Press in February 2024. Find out more at her website: https://www.lizawemakor.com