Olga Zilberbourg – writer
Description: Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of novel Your Presence is Mandatory, about a Soviet WWII vet and his family in Ukraine who reckon with his lifelong secrecy against the backdrop of Soviet history
Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of the novel Your Presence Is Mandatory, set between Hitler’s Germany and post-war Ukraine. It will be published in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Finland and Brazil in 2024.
Sasha has earned her MA in Journalism from New York University and her writing has been published in The New York Times, TIME, NBC , Harper’s Bazaar, BBC Radio, USA Today , The Telegraph , Los Angeles Times, and Narrative .
Sasha was born in the USSR and spent her childhood between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to San Francisco at the age of 13. Sasha speaks English, Russian and Italian, and has lived in New York, Warsaw, Berlin, and Italy. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and children.
Olga Zilberbourg – writer