Ilya Tsaryuk

Ilya Tsaryuk writes at the border where memory becomes myth and machines begin to dream. Born in Ukraine, shaped by cities that no longer exist the way he remembers them, he builds worlds from the wreckage of the real — futures that feel inherited rather than invented.

He came to writing through engineering, and to the strange through Carlos Castaneda. In 2001, two years spent researching the borders of dreams led to an encounter he has never fully explained — a Hitchhiker, lost and far from home, stranded on this planet and in search of connection. She shared her people's stories. He has been transcribing them ever since.

Salvador Dalí Is Dead is his first novel.