Jesus Sierra
Jesus Francisco Sierra is a Cuban writer who immigrated to San Francisco and grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District. His work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Common, Alta, Gulf Stream Literary Journal, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Caribbean Writer and The Acentos Review among others. He is the recipient of the 2025 San Francisco Literary Foundation’s award for Fiction and winner of the 2025 San Francisco Press Club award for commentary for his essay “A Short Spanish History of San Francisco”.
He is VONA Voices Alum and was writer in residence at MESA Refuge. He is a member of The Writers Grotto in San Francisco and one the founders of the Rooted & Written Writers Conference (R&W), the only free writing conference for writers of color by writer of color. He holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is currently at work on his first novel.
