Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She contributes to publications such as 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 an MA 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, was published in June 2019 by Soft Skull Press. As Berggruen Research Fellow, Wilk is centrally involved in and covers the work of the Transformations of the Human artists’ program.