Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of debut novel YOUR PRESENCE IS MANDATORY. She grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to San Francisco at the age of 13. She has a MA in Journalism from New York University and her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, TIME, the Telegraph, USA Today, and elsewhere.Besides writing, she has founded a leading wedding PR company, one of the first coworking spaces in the country, and the first U.S. magazine for Russian-speaking emigre teens. She also spent a year traveling alone around the world.