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Robert Sanchez
Senior Staff Writer

Robert Sanchez specializes in long-form features for the magazine. A former staff writer for the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and theAssociated Press, Robert has won or has been nominated for multiple state and national awards, including the prestigious Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, for which he has been a finalist three times. The City and Regional Magazine Association twice named Sanchez as a finalist for its writer-of-the-year award, and CRMA has named him as a finalist in its feature-writing, profile-writing, and civic-journalism categories. Sanchez’s story, “This is Ted Johnson’s Brain,” was anthologized in Best American Sports Writing 2010, and his piece, “The Crash,” is included in BASW 2011. Sanchez has lived in Colorado for more than two decades and attended Ponderosa High School in Parker. He graduated with honors from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Robert is married to his high school sweetheart, Kristen. The two have a daughter, Alexandra, and a son, Michael.

Featured in the Magazine
  • Will.
    April 2013

    Will LaFever was on a personal journey to repair a life broken by misunderstanding and misfortune. But fixing himself might cost him everything.

  • Playing Dirty
    April 2013

    For nearly six decades, every baseball thrown in a major league game has been buffed—with mud.

  • Jeanne Assam is Still Waiting
    December 2012

    Jeanne Assam’s life changed forever when she shot a gunman at a Colorado church five years ago.

  • Goodwill Hunting
    November 2012

    One man’s journey into thrift-store compulsion

  • Chasing A Ghost
    October 2012

    Denver Police open a cold case and uncover one of the most brutal serial killers in Colorado history.

  • Golden Girl
    June 2012

    Meet the new face of American athletics.

  • Ghosts on the Mesa
    March 2012

    Meet Richard Wetherill, an archaeologist you’ve probably never heard of.

  • Wife Interrupted
    December 2011
    How one woman is navigating a family tragedy and single motherhood—in a very public way.
  • The Fire Next Door
    September 2011

    Last September, 169 homes burned in Fourmile Canyon outside Boulder during the costliest fire in Colorado’s history. For a handful of residents—and hundreds like them—their lives would never be the same.

  • Rewrite
    May 2011

    One man's effort to rebuild his life—one word at at time—after tragedy strikes

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