Sherry ziman yang velazquez

Sherry Ziman (she/her) is a writer based outside Seattle, WA. She is drawn to prose that navigates liminal spaces in place and time, and stories with gothic and historical elements.

She holds a certificate in Creative Writing from UCLA Extension and continues to take classes at Hugo House. She is currently focusing on works of creative nonfiction.

A favorite essay of hers is Annie Dillard’s “The Chase” because of these lines, “But how could the glory have lasted forever? We could have run through every backyard in North America until we got to Panama. But when he trapped us at the lip of the Panama Canal, what precisely could he have done to prolong the drama of the chase and cap its glory?” Dillard evokes the anticlimactic nature of the pursuit’s finale, but equally, the wonder of the pursuit itself, which we come to find, is the whole point of it all.

Sherry lives with her husband and Mini Pin-Chihuahua, Teddy Roosevelt.