Jasper is a writer, teacher, and designer from the Mendocino Coast. His work has appeared in Joyland, Juked, 7×7, Lunch Ticket, Permasummer, Your Impossible Voice, and an anthology of California writing, Golden State 2017. As a poet-teacher with California Poets in the Schools, he works with over four hundred students every year, from third-graders to high school seniors. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. His cat is named Sybil, after the sibilant, favorite sound of cats across the galaxy.