Volodymyr Chernyshenko

37 years old, Chernyshenko is a translator of poems and novels from English. Among the authors he translated are: R. Kipling, J. Wilson, S, Silverstein.

An artist and a graphic designer. She works with comics, zines, posters, and creates music-inspired illustrations.
Portfolio:
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Chairman and co-founder of Voices of Children Charitable Foundation (since 2019). Specialist in the field of child´s rights protection. She worked as a press secretary in the office of the Commisioner of the President of Ukraine for Child´s Rights. After the beginning of the armed aggression against Ukraine in 2014, she moved to the east of the country and implemented a number of programs to protect children affected by the war.

Illustrator, graphic artist, designer. He graduated from the Ukrainian Printing Academy in Lviv. Participant and laureate of international exhibitions of graphics, ex-libris, and illustrations. He lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. He developed and illustrated dozens of books (mainly for children). Winner of the Lesya Ukrainka Award of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for design and illustrations for the book “Peter Pen” by James Barry.

Literary scholar, literary critic, editor, public lecturer, co-founder of Creative Women Publishing house.

Journalist, publicist, TV and radio host. Born and raised in Simferopol, he moved to Kyiv in 2014 after the occupation of the peninsula. His interests include post-Soviet drift and identity issues. He is a winner of the High Standards of Journalism Award (2017) and the Georgy Gongadze Prize (2020). Since February 25, 2022, he is a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Yaroslav Mishenov is a publisher of comics, founder of the Vovkulaka publishing house. He entered the publishing business as the owner of a comic book store, studying the Ukrainian market and growing with it. He finally combined his passion for graphic art and fiction and created this as the main creative direction of the publishing house, opening to the Ukrainian reader both the most important comic achievements of Western culture, and developing and promoting Ukrainian authors and their works.

Ukrainian state official and manager in the area of culture. In 2017, she became a co-founder of the Public Organization “Open Opera Ukraine.” She coordinated and ensured the implementation of the statutory tasks of the organization, carrying out cultural, artistic, and educational projects in the field of Baroque music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The significant projects included full-scale opera productions of “Dido and Aeneas” by H. Purcell, and “Acis and Galatea” by G.F. Handel in 2019.

Co-founder of the publishing house “Vikhola”. 15 years of experience in publishing and book distribution. She worked in book sales and purchases in various publishing houses and book trading companies. In 2018, she became the director of the “Nash Format” publishing house. In 2020, she and her colleagues organized the “Vikhola” publishing house where she is responsible for the financial and legal issues.

Stiazhkina is a Ukrainian writer, Doctor of Science, Professor of History, Leading Research Fellow at the National Academy of Science’s Institute of History of Ukraine, and a member of Ukrainian PEN.