Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of the debut novel Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury, 2024), winner of the California Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. It has been translated into seven languages. She has written for The New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, The Telegraph, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Sasha grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and children.