Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York.

She is the author of the novel Oval (2019) and the essay collection Death by Landscape (2022). Oval was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was described in the New Yorker as a “finely observed dystopian mirror.” Death by Landscape is a series of reflections on the role of literature in the age of extinction, which the New York Times called “a whirlwind tour of thought that develops into a philosophy.”

Elvia’s essays, criticism, and fiction have appeared in publications like Frieze, Bookforum, n+1, Granta, The Paris Review online, BOMB, 4Columns, The White Review, Mousse, The Nation, The Atlantic, WIRED and The New York Review of Books. She is a contributing editor at eflux journal and works as an editorial strategist; she also teaches at many universities and has gotten some grants and awards. Her work is represented by Claudia Ballard at WME.

Photo: Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff