Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at uncube magazine, and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for transmediale and a contributing editor at Rhizome. Currently, she's a contributing editor at e-flux journal and writes a monthly column on ethical quandaries for Monopol magazine. She has a masters from the New School for Social Research and has taught at places including the University of the Arts Berlin, Eugene Lang College, and City College of New York. Her first novel, Oval, was published in June 2019 by Soft Skull press. She is the recipient of a 2019 Andy Warhol Arts Writers grant and a 2020 fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She is represented by the Cynthia Cannell Literary Agency.

“Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations as consultants. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. This unforgettable debut novel asks questions of empathy and power on every scale—from bodies to bureaucracies—to create an unsettling portrait of the future of Berlin.”

Soft Skull (USA), Zona42 (Italy), Secession (Germany)

Reviews in The New Yorker, Bookforum, Observer, The Nation, The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books , NPR , Hyperallergic, Frieze, Monopol, Exberliner, The Stinging Fly, Full Stop, Book Slut , C Mag , Taz , Der Freitag

“A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel.” ―Jeff VanderMeer
“Deeply weird and unsettlingly hilarious.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“At the core of this seductive, acute, superbly-contemporary update of mid-period J.G. Ballard lies a deep-beating, deep-dreaming heart.” —Jonathan Lethem
“With wit and precision, Elvia Wilk pinpoints the moment when neoliberalism metastasizes into something far more sinister.” ―Tom McCarthy
“So good, so dark, so funny, so cruelly smart about where we are and where we’re going.” ―Shelley Jackson
“J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. An up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering.” ―McKenzie Wark
“A fabulous biopunk hybrid that's not quite like anything else I've ever read.” ―Ned Beauman
“Don DeLillo's White Noise updated for 2019 minus the satire of academia plus a layer of millennial discontent.” ―Molly Young