Lyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over thirty literary journals, magazines, and books. Her book, Trauma, Tresses, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press) appears on Library Journal’s 2022 Top 10 Best Social Sciences Books list, and was a 2023 Black Women’s Studies Association Selection. Lyzette is a contributor to The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2023), Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019), and the multi-award-winning The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012).
A National Writers’ Union and Authors Guild member, Lyzette’s work has been supported with funding from The Awesome Foundation, Black Artist Foundry, California Arts Council, California Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities partner, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is a 2023-2025 Lucas Artist Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center.
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