Halyna Kruk (1974) is an award-winning poet and prose writer, translator, and scholar from Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of 7 books of poetry, An Adult Woman (2017), Co(an)existence (2013), The Face beyond the Photograph (2005), Footprints on Sand and Journeys in Search of a Home (both 1997), audio book Буквар / BookWar (2023), Love never ends (2024), collection of short stories Anyone but me (2021), and 6 books for children. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages, her latest books of poems A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails and Lost in Living have appeared in English translation in the U.S. She has won numerous literary awards, including the shortlist for The 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the shortlist for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, The Sundara Ramaswamy Prize, The 2023 Women in Arts Award, The 2022 Kovaliv Fund Prize, The Best Book Award of BookForum 2021 etc. Halyna Kruk is a member of the Ukrainian PEN. Halyna Kruk holds a PhD in Ukrainian baroque literature (2001). She lives in Lviv and teaches European and Ukrainian baroque literature at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.

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