Biography

Personal background

  • Date of birth: May 28, 1987
  • Place of birth: Snizhne, Donetsk region
  • Place of residence: Kyiv
  • Professions: philologist by education, editor, QA tester, writer

Education and the beginning of a career

  • 2009 — Faculty of Philology of the Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University
  • Specialty: "Applied Linguistics"
  • Editor of the website of the business magazine "Kompanion"

IT career

  • Since 2015 — software QA tester
  • Responsible for quality assurance and test automation

Documentary chronicle (pseudonym)

  • 2017 — participated in the creation of a book about the defense of Luhansk airport
  • Pseudonym: Anastasia Voronova
  • Co-authors: S. Glotov, A. Glotova, D. Putyat, Yu. Rudenko
  • "In the ring of fire. Defense of Luhansk Airport" (Folio, 2018)
  • More than 15,000 copies were sold in the first half of the year

Fantastic dilogy "Leoburg"

  1. "The last abode of rebellion" (KM-Books, 2019)
  2. Steampunk; BBC Book of the Year 2020 longlist (Children's Book of the Year nomination)
  3. "The Last War of the Empires" (2020)
  4. Steampunk with elements of alternative history
  5. "Leoburg" (reprint of the dilogy in one volume, 2021)

Teenage prose

  • "City by the Sea" (2021)
  • 1st prize "Young Coronation - 2022" (category "Adults for children 12-15 years old")
  • Status: not published

The Crystal Castle fantasy trilogy

  1. "Stars and Bones" (Vivat, 2022)
  2. "Land of the Winged" (2023)
  3. Setting: Medieval Europe (Wars of Succession of Brittany, Hundred Years' War)

Stories in anthologies

  • "2003. The case about the island of Tuzla"
  • Collection "Independence Agency" (Teaching book - Bohdan, 2021)
  • "Closest to Hell"
  • Collection "Chronicles of unexplored lands" (George, 2022)

Themes and style

  • A combination of documentary reporting and fiction
  • Steampunk, alternative history, fantasy
  • Emphasis on heroism, survival and personal insight