Sasha Abram­sky grew up in Lon­don and attend­ed Bal­li­ol Col­lege, Oxford, where he stud­ied pol­i­tics, phi­los­o­phy, and eco­nom­ics. Abram­sky is a jour­nal­ist and author whose work has appeared in The Nation, Amer­i­can Prospect, The New York­er Online, and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. His most recent book, The Amer­i­can Way of Pover­ty: How the Oth­er Half Still Lives, was list­ed by The New York Times as among the one hun­dred notable books of 2013. He is a Senior Fel­low at Demos think tank and teach­es writ­ing at Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Davis. Abram­sky lives in Sacra­men­to, CA with his wife and their two children.