Mikhail Krylov, a Russian-born writer whose work blends dark comedy, existential philosophy, and autobiographical fiction. Originally from Siberia, my writing is shaped by over a decade working in luxury hotels and service environments. I write from lived experience—examining loneliness, class, identity, and the performance of being human in late capitalism.

Selected work includes:
• Rasputin’s Pagliacci (15,000 words) —novella that explores the fraud of a digital age where everyone has a podcast but nobody has a soul.

• It Will Be Over In a Month (10,000 words) —A fragmented story about the Pandemic.

• Sansom (50,000 words) — a novel about the invisible lives behind luxury hotel service.
• The Queen (screenplay, 41 pp.) — set inside a luxury hotel, following staff as they navigate power, desire, and class performance.
• Orphan Manual (8,000 words) — a fragmented essay-memoir exploring loneliness and absurdity.
• Eyes of Caviar (14,000 words) — a darkly comic, fragmented novella about nihilism (a Russian Animal Farm).
Additional fiction and screen work is available upon request.

My influences include Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and David Foster Wallace. My style is sharp, confessional, and darkly funny, and my work naturally lends itself to both literary and television/film development.

“What are you writing about?”

“About how not to be sad.”

“How is that going?”

“Turns out I’m very funny”