Erika Gallion Velasquez

Erika Gallion Velasquez is a Los Angeles based writer originally from Canton, Ohio. Her creative writing has been published in Entropy, Angel City Review, Women's Review of Books, HerStry, The Racket, NiftyLit, Apricity (nominated for Best of the Net ), Always Crashing, and elsewhere. Most recently the title essay of her memoir, Paradise is Ours, was chosen as the 2024 winner of The Cincinnati Review Robert and Adele Schiff award for literary nonfiction. The print version of the essay came out in the May 2025 issue of the Cincinnati Review. For more information visit www.erikagallion.com.