Halyna KrukHalyna Kruk was born in 1974 in Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of five books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and four children's books. She has garnered multiple awards for her writing, including the Ptyvitannia Zhyttia and Granoslov Prizs in 1997, the Step by Step prize for children's books in 2003, the BookForum Best Book Award in 2021, the Smoloskyp Poetry Award, the Bohdan Ihor Antonych Prize award, the "Hranoslav" Award, the Polish Gaude Polonia Fellowship, and the Kovaliv Foundation Prize for Prose in 2022. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages, and she has translated from several languages into Ukrainian. Kruk has recently collaborated on poetry/music projects with electronic musician Yurko Yefremov, and the singer Halyna Breslavets. She's served as vice president of the Ukrainian PEN, holds a Ph.D in Ukrainian literature, and is professor of European and Ukrainian baroque literature at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv. Read More Read Less