Yuri Andrukhovych

Yuri Andrukhovych (03. 13. 1960) is a poet, prosewriter, essayist, translator.

Professional education: journalism and political science. As a project manager, I worked on the creation of the «Urban Space Radio» media, as an event manager – in the «Promprilad.Renovation» project team (2018-2022). From April 2022 to April 2024, I worked as a coordinator of «Chytai» – a reading promotion program.

Curator of the «Oleh Lysheha Literary Residence», curator of the «Chytai» book club, within which the «Literature of our 1920s» and «Literature of memory» seasons were realized.

Olena Rybka is a deputy editor-in-chief and the leading editor of children’s literature at Vivat publishing house. Olena works with contemporary Ukrainian literature, literature for children and about children as well as promotes reading. Olena is a member of the Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society, member of PEN Ukraine.

Svitlana Taratorina is a Ukrainian writer from Crimea. The author of the fantasy novel «Lazarus» (2018), the artistic biography for children about Maria Prymachenko «This Mary drew animals», the comic book «Sounds of Peace» and the post-apocalyptic novel «The House of Salt». The winner of a number of awards, in particular, The CHRYSALIS AWARDS from the European Science Fiction Society. Member of PEN of Ukraine. Her works have been translated into Polish, English, and Azerbaijani.

Coordinator of the project of art laboratories, which are an element of psychosocial support of teenagers during the war by developing their creative potential. This project is created and implemented by the Voices of Children Charitable Foundation in cooperation with Ukrainian artists.

Sofia Cheliak is programme director of Lviv BookForum as well as a TV host, cultural manager, translator from Czech into Ukrainian, and PEN-Ukraine member.
In 2020, she began working for Ukraine Public Broadcasting Company, Channel UPBC Culture, and as co-host with Oleksandr Alfiorov of the program Cult Ukrainians. Since 2022, she has become a host of Culture Instinct.
She was awarded the Metaphor Prize, Lviv City Best Culture Manager Award and was named one of Kyiv Post’s “30 under 30”.

Halyna Kruk (1974) is an poet and prose writer from Lviv. She is the author of 6 books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and 4 books for children. She has won numerous awards, including the shortlist for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, the Sundara Ramaswamy Prize, 2022 Kovaliv Foundation Prize, the BookForum Best Book Prize-2021, and more. Her works were translated into more than 30 languages, and her most recent books are Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2023) and Lost in Life (2024).

Doctor of Philosophy, professor, the first chairman of the Kantian Society in Ukraine, until 2013 the head of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University.