Jenya Polosina

Jenya Polosina, illustrator and comic artist based in Kyiv. Works with various projects related to illustration, draws for media, books, etc. F. Between 2015-2021, has been a curator of an illustration course at Projector design school in Kyiv. In 2015, together with Anna Ivanenko, co-founded the Seri/graph studio. Starting from 2022, the main focus of the studio’s work is documentary comics.

Manages Centre for Economic Strategy since it was founded in May 2015.
From 2010 to April 2015, Hlib was Deputy Director at GfK Ukraine, the country’s leading market research agency. He worked at GfK Ukraine since 2003. Prior to that, during 1997-2003 he was Senior Economist, Publications Director and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Policy Studies. Hlib began his career as an economic journalist and editor, working in different mass media during 1993-1998.

Vira Kuryko is a reporter, writer and editor from Chernihiv, Ukraine. She works in The Ukrainians and magazine Reporters. She also writes non-fiction books. In 2022 Vira was working for a project for documenting Russian war crimes in Ukraine called The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies.

Editor, curator of the project «Wake Up, We’re at War» of the cultural and educational initiative «bezprobiliv» and a number of other projects, head of the NGO «bezprobiliv», curator of the organization’s children’s department, children’s reading expert, developer of author’s reading programs and workshops for children, teacher of Ukrainian and world literature.
Graduated from Sumy State University with a degree in journalism. Lives in Kyiv.

Tania Stus was born in Luhansk region in a dynasty of teachers. The author of fiction and educational books, the head of the children’s reading laboratory of the National Center «Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine», the founder of the «BaraBooka» children’s reading support project, the editor-in-chief of the «Junior Academy» publishing house. Trainer, author of creative writing programs for children, public activist in the field of reforming school literary education. Lives in Kyiv.

Head of PR and Communications of Superhumans Center

Oleksandr Podoliak is an editor, translator, and author writing poems and prose for children. He was born in 1989 in Luhansk region and studied publishing and editing at the Luhansk National University. He is an author of three books for children published with publishing house Crocus, and his poems appeared in children’s magazines Maliatko and Piznayko. His books received awards as the best poetry book of 2022 and the best illustrated book of 2023 according to Barabooka.

Myroslav Laiuk was born on 31 July 1990 in the Carpathians and now resides in Kyiv, Ukraine. He holds a PhD in philosophy and literature, and is a lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Myroslav Laiuk is the author of three novels and three poetry collections. Since 2022, he has been working at the frontline and in de-occupied territories as a war documentarian. Myroslav is an author of the book of reportages and essays «Bakhmut« (launched in mid-December, 2023).

Maryna was born in Kyiv. Obtained PhD in Philology, PhD in History. Member of PEN Ukraine. Manager of Cultural, including Cultural Diplomacy projects., as a writer works in fiction and non-fiction

Tetyana Pylypchuk, Director of Kharkiv Literary Museum. Tetyana researches Ukrainian Literature of 1920-1930th and also current trends of exposure, studies promotion of museum collections amount different audiences and new forms of communication with museum visitors. 2022 — 2024: curator of the project “Fifth Kharkiv” — art and discussion program that started in September 2022 in Kharkiv. 2021 – 2024: head of the Kharkiv art residency “Slovo”.