Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Mousse, Metropolis, Artforum, and Zeit Online. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at uncube magazine and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for transmediale. She is currently a contributing editor at e-flux journal and is finishing a masters at the New School for Social Research. She has taught at the University of the Arts Berlin, Eugene Lang College, and City College of New York. Her first novel, Oval, is forthcoming in spring 2019 from Soft Skull press.

“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.”

Reviews in The New Yorker, Bookforum, Observer

“A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel.” ―Jeff VanderMeer
“Deeply weird and unsettlingly hilarious.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Elvia Wilk’s Oval is a marvel. 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
“A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel.” ―Jeff VanderMeer
“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