Biography

Roksolana Zharkova is a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, poet, literary critic and researcher, candidate of philological sciences. Her scientific and creative path combines a deep interest in women's writing, gender studies, children's literature and psychoanalytic text analysis.

Biography and education

She was born on October 29, 1989 in Lviv Oblast.
She graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko. She wrote her first poem - "The Fate of Ukraine" - at the age of 11, while still studying at school.

Scientific and research activity

  • Candidate of Philological Sciences
  • Author of monograph "POEMS of women's writing: self-representation in Ukrainian modernist prose of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century" (2015) - a study of the works of Lesya Ukrainka, Olga Kobylyanska and Ulyana Kravchenko
  • Co-author of the literary and critical almanac "Woman through the prism of writing" (Ukraine-Mexico, 2013)
  • Author of workshop on expressive reading โ€” "A child grows up (among/from) books" (2016)

Creativity

Writes poetry, prose, essays, literary reviews. Among the main themes of her work:

  • female identity and experience
  • personal transformations
  • historical and cultural memory
  • love, faith, inner healing

Key publications:

  • "LISTEN - the sea" (poetry collection, 2015)
  • "Ulyana Kravchenko: life fragments" โ€” a literary and artistic publication dedicated to the writer's 155th birthday

Awards and contests

Roksolana Zharkova โ€” laureate and winner of more than 15 Ukrainian and international literary contests, including:

  • Competitions named after Milena Rudnytska (2008โ€“2010)
  • "Sources" (2010, Ostroh Academy)
  • Competition "My Shevchenko" (2014)
  • "Winged Lion" (III prize for prose manuscript, 2016)
  • "Make your choice โ€” save life", "Sixth poetic winter", "Paint me a night", "Living water for the wounds of Ukraine", "Fest of one poem" (Belarus, 2016) and others

Publications and media presence

Her texts have been published in numerous print and online publications:

  • "Galician Way", "Ukraine and Time", "View", "Stonesmith", "Audience", "Life Stories"
  • Internet resources: "Bukovoid", "STOS", "Zbruch", "RICH", "UA Modna"
  • platforms: "BaraBooka. The space of the Ukrainian children's book"

Scientific and creative interests

  • The phenomenon of women's writing
  • Gender and cultural studies
  • Psychoanalysis in literature
  • Children's reading in the sociocultural context

Roksolana Zharkova is an author who sensitively combines scientific reflection and the artistic word, creating deep texts in which aesthetics, philosophy and social responsibility acquire a harmonious unity.