Olha Mukha

(Great Britain/Ukraine)
philosopher, concept creator, cultural analyst and manager, and an expert on international communications and human rights.

Programme Director and Co-founder (former Head) of UAC-Lviv. Curator and Head of the Educational and International Department of the “Territory of Terror” Memorial Museum. The former Director of the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Office, representing Ukrainian literature abroad. Honorary Ambassador of Lviv (2020-2022).

Independent scholar based in Kyiv, Ukraine. His most recent publications are books in Ukrainian language Bunt proty imperii: ukraїnski shistdesiatnyky (Kyiv, Ababahalamaha, 2023), Cheski istoriї ХХ stolittia (Kyiv, Dukh I Litera, 2024) and Zrození disentu: šedesátníci a tání na Ukrajině 1956 – 1965 (Praha, Academia, 2024) in Czech. Currently he is a lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv Ivan Franko National University.

An active and goal-oriented young person from the Kherson, who sincerely strives for the development of his region. One of the organizers of the BookShelter project. The desire for new knowledge and constant self-improvement is one of the main goals and needs in life, on a level with the desire to help people and to the best of one’s ability to do so. The first such attempt is the implementation of the BookShelter project in the territory of the city of Kherson together with the project team.

Kyrylo Beskorovainyi is a co-founder and publisher of the popular science media «Kunsht», a science journalist, and the author of the book «My Friend from Dark Matter».

Writer, screenwriter and film editor. Grew up in Cherkasy and now lives in Kyiv. Pathologist by profession, but left her specialty to start a new career as screenwriter and film editor. Writes social fiction, historical and urban fantasy novels and short-stories. Fond of natural sciences, history and art, and occasionally appears in TV series. Co-founder of the LITavytsia creative association, an competitional, and promotion hub for Ukrainian SF writers, where she works on a volunteer basis.

Creator of Repainted Fox podcast and the project of Studio of literature games. Psychologist, facilitator, communication trainer.

Laureate of numerous literary contests and awards.
Author of the poetry collection “Vobler” (2016), the verse tale for children “Shchodennyk Zhovtoho Psa” (2021), the fairy-tale story “Drakosyky” (2023). Co-author of the miscellany “Fontan Kazok” (“Fountain of Fairy Tales”) (2019); co-author and co-translator of the poetry-photo album “For Invincible” (2023) and many other anthologies and collections.

Mia Marchenko – Ukrainian writer and translator, Ph.D in Literary Studies (urban texts), loves trees, plants and their magic. Author of the urban fantasy novel «City of Shadows», awarded with the «Koronatsia Slova» the «Debut of the Year in Prose» award from the literary portal BaraBuka and the Korniychukovskiy Literary Award in 2016. Mia’s third book, «Maika Palyvoda chooses her profession» («Chytarium», 2021) was also awarded the Vsevolod Nestayko National Literary Prize, 2023.

Mariia Shcherbyna (literary pseudonym – Marusya Shcherbyna) is a Ukrainian writer and book blogger. Winner of the children’s literary competition «Perodactyl» (2019–2020), prize winner of the All-Ukrainian competition of literary creativity «Sea of ​​Talents» [1] and the All-Ukrainian poetry competition «White Dove».