Oleksandr Mykhed

Author of 9 books. Participant of literary residencies in Finland, Latvia, Iceland, the USA, and France. Author and host of “Station 451” literary podcast (The Village Ukraine’s project). Oleksandr translated Marina Abramović’s autobiography “Walk Through Walls: A Memoir” into Ukrainian (2018, shortlisted for the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize).

Maksym Nestelieiev was born in 1984. He graduated from Donbas State Pedagogical University and finished postgraduate sudies in Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NASU. PhD in Ukrainian literature, literary critic, translator, editor, journalist.

Ukrainian writer. Author of a short stories collection “Sweet Life”. Co-founder, editor-in-chief and art director of the Babylon Library publishing house.

Poet, translator, artist, and designer; he is the author of four poetry collections; translator and co-translator of four poetry collections, three literary anthologies, and one libretto; recipient of fellowships from the President of Ukraine, International Writers’ and Translators’ House, House of Europe, Staromiejski House of Culture, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Dartmouth College, Literary Colloquium Berlin, PEN Ukraine. His works have been translated into 26 languages.

Petro Yatsenko was born in 1978 in Lviv. He is an author of eleven books. Among them are fiction, non-fiction, and books for teenagers. He is a PEN Ukraine member.

His novel The Union of Soviet Things (2020) won a BBC Children`s Book of the Year 2021 prize. The Magnetism novel (2020) was shortlisted for the Angelus Central European Literature Award in 2021. The novel Don’t Listen. Don’t Speak. Don’t Look (Ukrainian – Nechui. Nemov. Nebach) won the UNESCO City of Literature award in 2018.

Poet, children’s writer, editor. Author of more than 50 books, of which more than 30 are addressed to children of different ages, from babies to teenagers. Laureate of many awards and honors, including the Lesia Ukrainka Award. The story “Eight Days in the Life of a Chipmunk” was included in the catalog of the best children’s books in the world “White Ravens 2013”. The head of the children’s fiction editorial office of the publishing house “Bohdan”.

Children’s and adult writer. Author of screenplays and books. TV presenter. Actor. Winner of the Lesya Ukrainka Prize, Golden Dzyga.

Anatoliy Dnistrovyi is a writer and artist. Education: Nizhyn Gogol State University, History and Philology (specialist) (1992-1997). PhD (2001).
Published poetry “On the Death of Clio” (1999), “Abandoned Cities” (2004), “Charles Darwin’s Turtle: Selected Poems, Translations, Essays” (2015); Published novels “The Rats” (2005, 2011, 2020), “Drosophila over Kant’s Volume” (2010), “Breakfast in the Snow” (2015), “B-52” (2019).
Dnistrovyi has joined the Ukrainian Army. Analyst in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Author of the book “Bogomazov in Finland. A Century Later” (Rodovid, 2023), who lives in Finland. She has a degree from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Teramae is involved in promoting Ukrainian culture. She has been a lecturer at the University of Helsinki, an organizer of the annual Ukrainian Film Days festival in Helsinki, and a curator of cultural projects of the Ukrainian Association in Finland. Currently she is a freelance editor and author of the magazine “Localna Istoriya”.

Maryna Ponomarenko was born in 1984 in the village of Hryhorivka, Kyiv region. She graduated from the Karpenko-Karyш Kyiv State University of Theatre, Film, and TV (specializing in film and TV dramaturgy, Bohdan Zholdak’s studio). Author of the collection of poems “The Book of Love and Fury”. Based on her poems, the performances “TutIZar” (2022) and “Hold On The Void” (2023) were created. She worked on television and in the field of communications.