Sierra Skye Gemma is an award-winning writer and journalist. She was awarded a 2013 National Magazine Award for "Best New Magazine Writer." Her creative nonfiction won the 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and the 2013 Rhubarb "Taboo" Literary Contest and her fiction was long-listed in House of Anansi's Broken Social Scene Story Contest.

Currently working towards an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Sierra also works as an Executive Editor of PRISM international, western Canada’s oldest literary magazine.

Sierra co-writes the blog Regressive Parenting. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly, The Vancouver Sun, The Vancouver Observer, WestCoast Families, Fringe Magazine, Plenitude, Nineteen Questions, and elsewhere.