Halyna Kruk (1974) is an award-winning poet and prose writer, translator, and scholar from Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of five books of poetry, Grown-Up (2017), (Co)existence (2013), The Face beyond the Photograph (2005), Footprints on Sand, and Journeys in Search of a Home (both 1997), a collection of short stories, Anyone but Me(2021), which won the 2022 Kovaliv Fund Prize, and four children’s books. Two of them, Marko Travels Around the World and The Littlest One, have been translated into 15 languages. Her numerous literary awards include the Sundara Ramaswamy Prize, the 2023 Women in Arts Award, the 2021 BookForum Best Book Award, the Smoloskyp Poetry Award, the Bohdan Ihor Antonych Prize, and the Hranoslov Award. Her latest book of poems, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, was recently published in English translation in the US. Kruk is the co-creator of various multimedia projects including The BookWar (2021) in collaboration with electronical musician Yurko Yefremov and singer Halyna Breslavets and the poetry and music performance The Resistance of Matter (2016). She holds a PhD in Ukrainian baroque literature (2001). Kruk is a member of Ukrainian PEN. She lives in Lviv and teaches European and Ukrainian baroque literature at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv
