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Sara Makeba Daise, MA (she/her) is a Black, queer, fifth-generation Gullah Geechee Writer, Public Historian, Griot, Cultural Worker, Healer and Diviner from the South Carolina Lowcountry. She works passionately at the intersections of Afrofuturism, ancestor elevation, intergenerational healing, Black queer erotics & desire, and African Diasporic rituals, history & culture - particularly in the South. As a writer, Sara explores these topics through memoir, prose, folklore and speculative fiction. 

Daughter of Storytellers, Culture Bearers, and stars of Nick Jr.’s Gullah Gullah Island, Ron & Natalie Daise, Sara’s multidisciplinary approach builds on their continuous work of worldbuilding, archiving and affirming Black life.  

Sara’s debut book, Sankofa Shadow Work: Diaries of a Diasporic Diviner (2025),  is a literary, ancestral cosmogram following the Southern journey of a queer Black Diviner, Griot, and Gatekeeper. Blending memoir, public history, conjure, and fabulation, this book offers a powerful exploration of life, death, and rebirth cycles, embodying pleasure, and healing backwards and forwards in the face of systemic terror.

Her acclaimed 2020 essay "Be Here Now: The South is a Portal", explores the South as a portal for Africana and Indigenous resistance, magic and ways of knowing. A 2023 WNBA Authentic Voices Fellow, and the youngest fellow in the inaugural Eldergarten Fellowship, she has also published in Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth (2022) Sistories Lit Mag., and touching:blackstudy. 

She finds joy, pleasure, restoration, and healing in her ancestors, writing, plants, water, the stars, words, music, laughter, tears, and Black folk.

At its core, Sara’s work centers Black women, queer, disabled Black & Indigenous peoples --inviting folks to consider and align with their wholeness, pleasure, and divinity. It is rooted in the lived experiences and inherent value of all those who came before. 

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