Ivan Samokish

I am an aspiring Canadian writer with Ukrainian roots. Along with writing, I love to travel, collect vinyl records, go fishing, cook food and to polish my quilting skills. I grew up and went to school in Brooklyn, New York before moving with my family to Mississauga, Ontario. This is my personal site, dedicated mainly to my writing along with a few occasional blog posts about food recipes, social issues or anything that happens to pop into my head.

My first debut novel, “Division Clock”, was inspired by my own personal experiences battling with an insidious depression. While growing up, it constantly plagued every aspect of my life. I have no idea why or how it came to be, but I just felt sad most of the time and overwhelmed by the constant hypocrisy, deception and facades of conceit that I encountered. Questions of hope, love and death were central to this feeling of gloom. It is a state of mind difficult to shake off, it grows with you over time, threatening to choke you into ruin. My first work is a story that tries to convey this state of perpetual melancholy.