Sasha Dovzhyk

Sasha Dovzhyk is a Ukrainian writer, editor, and cultural manager. She holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Birkbeck and edits the London Ukrainian Review. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guardian, New Lines, Index of Censorship, CNN and others. She has recently moved back to Ukraine to help set up INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange.

Svitlana Osipchuk is a researcher and director of the War Childhood Museum in Ukraine. Since 2016, Svitlana has been working in the non-governmental sector. Since 2022, she has been heading the War Childhood Museum in Ukraine, focusing on caring for mental health and a sensitive approach to traumatic past experiences through her work with children’s wartime experiences.

Co-founder and co-curator of the memory culture platform Past / Future / Art, PhD, professor at the philosophy department at the Odesa Mechnikov National University, Since 2014, she has been participating in public history initiatives. In 2019, together with Kateryna Semenyuk, she founded the Past / Future / Art memory culture platform.

Writer, photographer, clip maker, videographer, volunteer, journalist, recently started painting.
Life credo is «Carpe Diem».

Oleksiy Zhupanskyi is a Ukrainian publisher and writer. Head of Zhupanskyi Publishing House.

The author of the novels «Children will come to me first» (2008), «Lakhmitnik» (2012), «Godspeed You! Black General Secretary» (2017), «Heart of Spring (Witch from the Neighborhood)» (2024), the novel «Autumn Numbness (Meeting the Dead)» (2023) and the collection of short stories «Domestic Satanism» (2010).

Bohdana Neborak is a journalist and editor based in Kyiv. Educated as a lawyer, Bohdana has ten years of experience working for media and cultural institutions. In her work, she focuses on culture and its influence on society. With experience in cultural diplomacy and management, Bohdana also runs a podcast about culture and researches the connection between reading practices and democracy.

Researcher of Kharkiv toponymy, PhD, Head of the North-Eastern Department of The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Since 2019 she has been head of the MEGOGO AUDIO (part of the international media service MEGOGO). 10 years of experience in the book industry. Content strategist skilled in publishing printed books, and production podcasts, audio and e-books, as well as cross-media and digital products (including mobile applications). She managed the creation and promotion of book projects that became bestsellers on the Ukrainian market.