Victoriіa Shtepura

Writer, editor, artist, expert dog breeder, researcher of relic animal breeds, extreme athlete. I was born and live in Kharkiv. I have a science and art education, worked with animals more than 30 years. Since 1999 I have been publishing popular science articles in Kyiv magazines, wrote for online media. I am the author of fiction in the genres of military fiction, historical fantasy, ethnofantasy and mysticism. Co-founder of the Creative Association LITAVYTSA, volunteer editor, illustrator.

Children’s writer and expert of BaraBooka. Children’s Reading Laboratory in JAS (the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) – is a project for anyone who is interested in modern Ukrainian children’s and young-adult literature.

Currently lives in Odesa. She received a master’s degree in political science. In 2020, her first book appeared – a novel for teenagers «That’s all of us«. In 2021, the book for children «Mission “Rescue”: Bears« was published, after «Mission “Rescue”: Bees« and «Mission “Rescue”: Dolphins«. In 2022, the travelogue book «Cities you will go to« was published. In 2024 – the childrens book «Politics for children» and «Rocket Raccon and other heroes«.

Literary scholar and historian, publicist and radio journalist, translator of Ukrainian poetry and prose into Polish, lecturer of translation seminars and workshops, and moderator of literary events with Ukrainian authors in Poland.

Over the past 15 years, I’ve focused on communication in nonprofits, particularly education for the last 5. While working with Anna Novosad’s team at the MoES, I coordinated communications for higher education reform. Collaborating with the State Service of Education Quality, I was responsible for PR support of institutional audits in schools. After the full-scale invasion, I joined Anna Novosad and Anna Putsova to restore access to education at savED foundation, where I lead the communications.

She has been working in the field of child rights protection in Ukraine for the past year and is also a co-organizer of events in the volunteer initiative «Cult_o_Vo» (culture and volunteering).

Slava Svitova is the Ukrainian author of five children’s books and a co-author of numerous
books of collected stories; a co-founder of Creative Women Space, a creativity and writing coach. She loves telling stories, reading books, observing the world and
getting more ideas.