Sierra Zounes (she/her, IG: @ZounesWrites) has known from a young age that her life would revolve around writing. Majoring in "Literature and Writing" at California State University San Marcos with a masters in "Reading, Language, and Literacy," she taught middle and secondary English for six years, directed the San Marcos Writing Project Creative Young Writers Camps (middle and high school divisions), and committed her days to working on my various prose and poetry manuscripts. 

 Coming in at 5th place during San Diego Queen Bee's 2024 All-Women Slam Poetry Competition, Sierra writes spoken word poetry, designs poetry comics, and records voiceover projects for books and film.  Also a prose writer, she was a finalist in the 2023 Writer's Digest Annual Competition with her horror short story "Duck, Duck, Duck" which can be read on her website, www.zouneswrites.com.

Aside from writing, she is a martial artist of 22 years with White Dragon Martial Arts, loves her cats Toad and Cucumber (who tolerate her), and enjoys visiting book stores and eating Dim Sum with her husband.