Join Sasha in conversation with New York Times journalist Steven Lee Myers on the legacy of secrecy and misinformation in Russia and Ukraine. For Vasilyuk, her upbringing between Russia and Ukraine and an ambiguous family lineage inspired her first novel Your Presence Is Mandatory, a riveting story of a Ukrainian Jewish WWII veteran and his family who reckon with his lifelong secrecy against the backdrop of Soviet history. Myers, author of The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, has been covering misinformation and disinformation for NYT for over 20 years, including extensive coverage of Russian election interference efforts. Together, Myers and Vasilyuk untangle and explore the personal effects of far reaching political campaigns that put to question what is fact and what is fiction.

Sasha will be talking about the experience of publishing your first book at Dominican University of California MFA Residency.

I’ll be speaking at the debut author panel at New York Jewish Book Festival held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan.

I’ll be reading & discussing my work at MyBiblioteka, a new book salon in Brooklyn, along with journalist Simon Shuster, author of The Showman.

Join me for lunch at the gorgeous Salmagundi Club in Manhattan as I’ll talk books and politics.

I’m reading at Rally Reading Salon, a place where readers, writers, activists, and citizens find the stories they have in common along with Eugene Lim and Jean Hannah Edelstein.

JBC Virtual Writers Conference panel “New Jewish Voices with Danny Goodman, Sasha Vasilyuk, Sarah Seltzer and Zachary Solomon”. RSVP on https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/2024-jewish-writers-conference

I’ll be on a panel at BookCity festival in Milano. More info on https://www.bookcitymilano.it/eventi/2024/tradurre-di-guerra-aspettando-la-pace

Debut author panel as part of USF’s Creative Writing MFA program “Life After MFA”

At this year’s LitCrawl, I’m joining a group reading “Passionate Thinking in Diaspora: Writers from Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova Share Fiction and Nonfiction”

Author presentation at Rotary Club of Walnut Creek

Author presentation: From WWII to the War in Ukraine. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Mission San Rafael

Your Presence Is Mandatory: From WWII until Ukraine War author talk at Rotary Club of San Francisco, the second oldest rotary club in the world.

I’ll be discussing my novel with Lee Kravetz at a luncheon cohosted by Orinda Books and the Alta Mesa Center for the Arts

I’ll be premiering the Italian version of my novel at Italy’s premier literary festival, Pordenonelegge, https://www.pordenonelegge.it/.

Sasha will do a virtual reading and presentation of Your Presence Is Mandatory at Literary Modiin Salon. To register, click https://bit.ly/3Yvdl8h

Sasha will present the French edition of her novel “Le Loup du Donbass” (Charleston) at Dernier Rempart Librairie in Antibes, France.

As part of COJECO’s Academy of Jewish Heritage, I’ll do a virtual presentation of Your Presence Is Mandatory in English and Russian. Click here to register.

Join me for a reading at The Racket literary salon along with an amazing literary lineup: Lee Kravetz, Olga Zilberbourg, Yalitza Ferreras, Jacqueline Doyle and Rita Chang-Eppig!

I’ll be talking about Your Presence is Mandatory in a virtual event at the Jewish Community Library.

I’ll be reading from Your Presence is Mandatory and answering questions in Russian & English at Globus Books.

I’ll be discussing ‘Your Presence is Mandatory’ with Susanne Pari, an Iranian-American author of ‘In the Time of Our History’. The first 50 people in attendance will receive free giveaway signed books!

Seattle friends, come by Elliott Bay Books for my conversation with Tara Conklin and book signing. More info on https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/20240529

I’ll be talking about Your Presence Is Mandatory with a good friend and post-Soviet writer Olga Zilberbourg, author of Like Water and Other Stories, at Telegraph Hill Books.

I’ll be talking about the book with Michael David Lukas in the gorgeous Mill Valley Public Library, set inside a redwood forest!

Your Presence is Mandatory reading and conversation with Steven Saum at Booksmith in San Francisco. I’ll be signing books!

Please join the Barnard College Slavic Department and the Harriman Institute for an author talk with journalist and novelist Sasha Vasilyuk. Moderated by John Wright.

Your Presence is Mandatory NYC launch reading & afterparty for friends. Please RSVP on