SASHA LAURENS (she/her) is the author of young adult contemporary fantasy novels Youngblood (Razorbill, 2022) and A Wicked Magic (Razorbill, 2020). She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has lived in New York City, Michigan and St. Petersburg, Russia. She currently lives in Brooklyn and puts her PhD in political science to use researching protest in authoritarian states.
