about the author.

Jay Barbanel is a writer and creative based in Los Angeles.

 

Born in Costa Rica, raised somewhere in between.

His past didn’t arrive all at once.  It showed up in flashes.

 

In photos.  In names that didn’t fully belong to him yet.  So he followed it.  Across years, across countries, across versions of himself. 

 

Finding Tico is what happens when he stopped running from the questions and let them lead him somewhere real.

 

Finding Tico is his debut book.