Shemaiah Gonzalez is a writer with degrees in English Literature (BA) , Intercultural Ministry (MAPS) and Creative Non-Fiction Writing (MFA). She thrives in moments where storytelling, art, literature, and faith collide. Her work has appeared in America Magazine, Image Journal’s Good Letters, Ekstasis, The Curator, and Loyola Press, among others. A Los Angeles native, she now lives in Seattle with her husband and their two teen sons.

In 2018 her story about her college English professor was selected by Pope Francis to be included in his book Sharing The Wisdom of Time.

Nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize for her flash non-fiction essay, Dios Mio in Whale Road Review.

In 2020 joined Whale Road Review as a CNF peer reviewer.

In 2021 served as a contributing editor for prose for The Curator Magazine.

Awarded an Honorable Mention Catholic Press Award in for Best Spiritual Life Column in 2021 for her Northwest Catholic God in the Ordinary.

Presented at 2022 Catholic Imagination Conference on her biography on beloved NW Catholic writer, Brian Doyle.

Awarded Third Place Catholic Media Award for Best Regular Column-Spiritual Life in 2023 for her Northwest Catholic God in the Ordinary column.

Keynote “May We Never Lose Our Sense of Wonder” at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature at the University of Dallas November 2024.

My book Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight, a collection of essays was published with Zondervan/Harper Collins April 2025.

CNF workshop faculty for Winona Christian Writers Conference at Grace College. Summer 2025 and 2026

Guest Faculty for Whitworth MFA Residency Summer 2026