Iryna Hrabovska

Contemporary Ukrainian writer and blogger. She was born in the city of Snizhne, Donetsk region, and currently lives in Kyiv. Iryna works in IT. She is the co-author of the documentary chronicle “In the Ring of Fire. Defense of the Luhansk National Airport” under the pseudonym Anastasia Voronova, the author of the steampunk trilogy “Leoburg”, the fantasy trilogy “Crystal Castle” and other fantasy stories. She is the co-founder of the YouTube project “Fantastic Talk(s)”.

Pavlo Derevianko writes fiction (dark fantasy, horror etc.). “The Chronicles of the Gray Order” trilogy became the bestseller and won The Chrysalis Award from European Science Fiction Society; in 2023 it was nominated for Best Written Work of Fiction.

Writer, literary critic, organizer of book events at BaraBooka. Space of Ukrainian Children’s Literature. In 2019, she debuted as a writer with her picture book “Dreams for the Sofa”. In the same year, she won the literary competition “Write a book about me”. In 2020, her teenage book “Lost in the Camp” was published. In 2022, a children’s book about the history of the Ukrainian railway was published called “The Story on the 14th Track” (“Junior Academy”) .

Ukrainian writer from Lviv. Author of urban fantasy “Varta in the Game”, “The Artifacts of Prague”, and “The Blood of Budapest”; historical “Ceramic Hearts”, mythological “Hessy”, “Amaterasu Academy” and “All My Keys and Gaia”.
Her novels and short stories were translated into Czech, Polish, and English.
ESFS Chrysalis award 2023 nominee. Awards: Coronation of the Word II prize 2017, BaraBooka Debut of the Year 2018 & The Best Series of the Year 2021, etc.
Literary resident of Gdansk and Prague.

Editor of publishing projects at Tempora Publishing House. Lecturer at literary courses of educational platforms Litosvita, Nobilitet, Prometheus, Cultural Project. Curator of the Annual course of creative writing (Litosvita). Literary critic of The Ukrainian Week magazine, Lektüra, Chytomo, LB.ua, DSnews.ua projects. Shevchenko National Prize expert. Author of essays and articles included in Polish, German, Estonian, Swedish, Czech anthologies, as well as in foreign media.

Iaroslava Strikha is a literary translator and literary scholar. She holds a PhD from Harvard University (2017). Her translation of Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson received the Best Book Award of the Lviv Book Forum as the best translation in 2018.

Svitlana Povalyaeva has published seven prose books, one book for children, and two poetry books. For 15 years she worked as a journalist and editor on television, radio, print and electronic media.

Anastasia was born in 1986 in the family of military men. She grew up in Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi region. She graduated from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2010. By education, she is a Ukrainian philologist and literary critic. She lives between Lviv and Kyiv.

Together with his mother, he left Luhansk region at the beginning of the full-scale war. He now lives in Kyiv region. He draws a lot, it helps him escape from the war. He once said the phrase “We haven’t lived long, I want to live longer” when he was talking to his mother about the war. This quote was included in the book “War in the Voices of Children” which was published by the “Voices of Children” foundation on the anniversary of the full-scale war.

Higher education — Lviv Academy of Printing; professional activity since 2000; the founder of the Ivan and Yurii Lypa Charitable Fund (1999) — distribution and popularization of Ukrainian books in the South of Ukraine; in 2000, in Odesa, she opened the first department of Ukrainian books; in 2003, she opened a bookstore-office, in 2005, she opened a bookstore-club ; in 2010, she opened a bookstore-cafe; participant and co-organizer of book exhibitions, forums; member of several expert boards.