Jasmin Sandelson

Jasmin is a writer and editor based in New York City. Her first book, "My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood," out now with the University of California Press, reveals the overlooked but transformative power of female friendships for teens growing up in poverty.

She is currently working on a memoir in fragments, In This House We Flourish, about coming out later in life, queer girlhood, and the end of a marriage. A second non-fiction project undertakes a personal reckoning with family mythology, intergenerational trauma, and the many facets of inheritance. Her writing appears in The Georgia Review, Longreads, Hobart, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in The Rumpus and The Sewanee Review.

Jasmin has a PhD in sociology from Harvard University, where she studied inequality in America’s cities. She works as a Research Manager at Columbia University’s Justice Lab, and is completing an MFA in creative non-fiction at NYU, where she is an Axinn Fellow.

Originally from London, Jasmin spent five years in Boston before making her way to Brooklyn, which she likes best of all.