Dr. Breeze Harper

Dr. Breeze Harper is an Afrofuturist writer, public scholar, novelist, and cultural geographer whose work bridges food justice, ecological sustainability, and embodied wellness through a decolonial lens. She is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society, and the author of several forthcoming literary works, including Seeds of Sankofa, The Dragon Comes at Night, and Potato Chips and Wine.She is the founder of the Sistah Vegan Project and Dragon Fire Wellness, where she advances culturally grounded frameworks that center liberatory and regenerative approaches to health and community. Her work spans academic scholarship, creative writing, and public engagement, with a focus on reimagining more just and sustainable futures.Dr. Harper holds a PhD in Cultural Geography, MA in Educational Technologies from Harvard University, and a BA from Dartmouth College. She is also a Certified Menopause Coaching Specialist (CMCS), integrating culturally informed approaches to midlife embodiment and wellness into her research, writing, and public programming.This space is dedicated to her literary works—spanning nonfiction, fantasy, Afrofuturism, speculative fiction, and queer narrative—offering readers pathways into stories and ideas that challenge dominant paradigms while imagining more just and liberated futures.Dr. Harper is also available for keynotes, workshops, and fireside conversations on topics including food justice, Afrofuturism, menopause and midlife embodiment, and decolonial approaches to wellness and social change.

Release Date: Summer 2027Description:Seeds of Sankofa is a non-linear Afrofuturist and Afrofantasy novella rooted in soil, memory, and Black survival across time. It is a story that does not move forward so much as it ellipses, spirals, and remembers, asking what it means to inherit a world shaped by colonial violence while still cultivating futures grounded in care, ancestral knowledge, and ecological intelligence.Seeds of Sankofa traces connections between land and body, past and present, ritual and resistance. Soil is not merely setting but witness. Plants (okra, hemp, nettles, willow) carry histories of displacement, survival, and regeneration. Black bodies are not abstractions but living archives, holding the imprints of enslavement, extraction, migration, pregnancy, grief, joy, innovation, creation, and love. Across these layers, the novella explores how memory persists even when systems attempt erasure—and how futurity is seeded through acts of remembrance.Reading Seeds of Sankofa is an immersive experience rather than a conventional narrative journey. The book unfolds through interwoven voices, shifting perspectives, and moments of speculative rupture, moving between ancestral pasts, imagined presents, and possible futures. Rather than offering a single protagonist or linear arc, it invites the reader into a living ecosystem: one where meaning accumulates through resonance, repetition, and return.Situated within Afrofuturism and Afrofantasy, Seeds of Sankofa engages deeply with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, plantation logic, and racial capitalism, while also imagining modes of not just survival, but joy, thriving and belonging beyond them. It refuses easy resolution.This is Book One, the first seed in a longer series. The narrative does not close; it roots, preparing the ground for what will grow across subsequent books.How to read this novella:No need to rush. No need to search for straight lines. Read the way you would tend a garden: by noticing patterns, listening for echoes, and allowing the soil to speak.Seeds of Sankofa is not a closed story to be consumed, but an ecosystem to enter.

Release Date: Summer 2027Description: Auré Jenkins is a 48 year old mom, deep in perimenopause while navigating the snark of a TikTok-fluent teen daughter. And every night, a dragon wakes her up, synced with her hot flashes at 3am.Yes. A dragon.Because perimenopause is wild, chaotic, messy, sacred, and cathartic.And dragons?They're just midlife rage and ancestral wisdom with scales and wings.Ready to meet the dragon?

Publication Date: March 2010Sistah Vegan is an anthology of black-identified women's experiences of, and perspectives on: nutrition, food, ecological sustainability, health and healing, animal rights, parenting, social justice, spirituality, hair care, race, gender-identification, womanism, and liberation.