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 essays and articles that have appeared in publications around the world. With a BA from University of Michigan and an MFA from Goddard College, Lynne spent 15 years in New York, Washington and Detroit as a journalist before creating a marketing and public relations company. Now, she helps authors build marketing strategies for their books while also teaching writing, leading writing retreats and writing novels, including Woman of Valor and Cave of Secrets. A former Fulbright Specialist and the recipient of a Certificate in Entrepreneurship from the Goldman Sachs 10K Small Businesses program at Wayne State University, Lynne is the mother of four young adults and lives with her archivist husband in the Detroit suburbs.

Batnadiv HaKarmi's work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including the Ilanot Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Rogue Agent, and Belmont Story Review. Her chapbook, The Love of Mortal Beings, was published by Kelsey Books in 2023, and received a Pushcart nomination. Her biography of Holocaust rescue activist, Pinchas Rosenbaum, is upcoming from Gefen Publishing. A writer and visual artist, Batnadiv studied painting at the New York Studio School, and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bar Ilan University. She is the recipient of the Andrea Moriah Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Brideport Prize for flash fiction, and the Harbor Review’s Jewish Women’s Poetry Prize. Born in Stanford, California, she grew up in Jerusalem, where she currently resides with her husband and four young children.