Sasha Vasi­lyuk was born in the Sovi­et Crimea and spent her child­hood between Ukraine and Rus­sia before immi­grat­ing to San Fran­cis­co at age 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, BBC, The Tele­graph, Los Ange­les Times, and else­where. She lives in San Fran­cis­co, Cal­i­for­nia with her family.