Literary Modiin - September 2024 Author Event

About the authors:

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence is Mandatory (Bloomsbury), longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and translated into six languages. Sasha grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA in journalism from New York University. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, CNN, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, KQED, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Solas Award for Best Travel Writing, a North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) Award, and a Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Fellowship from UC Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and children. www.sashavasilyuk.com.

Lynne Golodner is the award-winning author of ten books and hundreds of…