Press Kit

Short Bio

Jasper Sanchez is the author of Meet Me at the Picket Line and The (Un)Popular Vote. He lives in Northern California with his cat. You can visit him online at www.jaspersanchez.com.

Long Bio

Jasper Sanchez is the author of Meet Me at the Picket Line and The (Un)Popular Vote, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. He earned his BA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA in cinema and media studies from UCLA. While neither degree prepared him for the neoliberal hellscape of late-stage capitalism, they did push him to join the IWW as a red card-carrying Wobbly. He is a Californian by birth, disposition, and more recently, choice. When he's not writing, he can be found kvetching about capitalism and conversing with his cat. You can visit him online at www.jaspersanchez.com.

A Note on Identity

In regard to identity, Jasper is white and does not identify as Latine. He is not an author of color and should not be included on lists of Latine and/or BIPOC authors.

If you’re looking for trans and nonbinary authors of colors to support, here are a few names to start: Kacen Callender, H.E. Edgmon, Awaeke Emezi, Isaac Fitzsimons, Jonny Garza Villa, Emery Lee, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, Mark Oshiro, Sonido Reyes, Rivers Solomon, Kai Cheng Thom, and Aiden Thomas. LGBTQ Reads also keeps an extensive list of queer books featuring BIPOC characters by BIPOC authors here.

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of identity labels/categories that do apply to Jasper: queer, transgender/transmasculine/trans man, bisexual, Jewish, neurodivergent (e.g., autistic, ADHD).

If you have further questions or would like clarification, you can shoot Jasper a message here.

Contact

For official inquires, please contact Claire Friedman (InkWell Management).

For informal inquiries, Jasper can be found on Instagram @jrsanchez, on Bluesky @jaspersanchez.bsky.social or on his Contact form.

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