Ilya Gridneff is a freelance reporter in Toronto and has experience in working for POLITICO Europe.
He researches Europe-wide background stories.
Ilya was born and raised in Sydney, Australia.
Over the past two decades he’s written fiction, launched a distinguished career as an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent, and worked in development and state-building in Somalia and the Horn of Africa. He’s worked in Papua New Guinea, Germany, Belgium, the U.K., Uganda, South Sudan and Kenya.
His first work of fiction, Your Name Here, co-authored with Helen DeWitt, will be published under the Dalkey Archive by Deep Vellum in Sept. 23, 2025.
