Biography

Basic information

  • Year of birth: 1980
  • Place of birth: Lviv
  • Professions: writer, poet, translator, cultural manager, producer of book trailers and podcasts

Education

  • 2001 β€” graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University
  • Specialty: classical philology

Translation and multimedia projects

  • 2012 β€” translation of the novel by DBC Pierre "The light went out in the Land of Seers"
  • Created the multidisciplinary project "Decadance Takes Its Own" (text + visual art + music) under the brand "Batrachomiomakhia"
  • 2017–2021 β€” translations of poetry (English) for the Versopolis platform and the BookForum festival
  • 2021 β€” 18 episodes of radio journalism (Public Radio Culture)
  • 2021–2023 β€” production of book trailers for the German publishing house edition.FotoTapeta

Literary projects

Novels

  • "Hunt, doctor, Hunt!"
  • Debut novel, a third of the text was written on a mobile phone
  • Illustrations: Marianna Vynar
  • "Behind the back"
  • The first Ukrainian novel-laureate of the EU Literary Prize
  • The winner of book pitching of the Odesa ICF and Book Arsenal

Poetry and prose collections

  • Poetry: "Lights of St. Elmo", "Mustard", "Painkiller and hypnotic", etc.
  • Stories in anthologies and own collections

Cultural management and production

  • Curator and producer of book trailers, podcasts and radio projects
  • Cooperation with photographers, artists, musicians, film directors, actors

Themes and approaches in creativity

  • Existentialism and the search for security in the modern world
  • Multiculturalism and the issue of identity
  • Physicality and sexuality
  • Combination of genres and media forms (text, audio, video, visuals)